Councillors from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and People Before Profit are set to vote for the lowest rate of local property tax for 2024
The Local Property Tax, which is based on the value of the property, has a base rate that can be varied by plus or minus fifteen per cent by each local authority. Dublin City Council usually votes to reduce it by the maximum amount possible.We don’t have to persist with this nonsense - get rid of VAR
He said the “wishful thinkers” who are proposing that the base rate should be applied were trying to get “blood out of stones”. The extra money that would be raised would be used for extra street cleaning and other improvements to the public domain. He said it was not true, as asserted by some councillors, that additional money raised by council votes on the property tax rate simply resulted in less money being received from central Government.