Abtran paid €3.6m for property tax calls

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that Cork-based firm Abtran was last year paid €3.58m inclusive of Vat for providing telephone call handling for the local property tax and household charge.

However, Abtran wasn’t the biggest winner last year from the Revenue Commissioners’ payout to third parties, with its pay to An Post totalling €6.32m or — on average — €121,538 per week.

The figures show that Revenue’s largest payout was made to Accenture, which received €15.1m in relation to providing IT resources.