Abtran gets €4.65m fee for property tax helpline

Outsourcing firm Abtran, which operates the helpline for the Revenue’s local property tax received fees of €4.65m for providing the service last year.

That is according to new figures from Revenue which show that the Cork-based firm has received fees from Revenue totalling €8.23m since March of 2013.

Abtran started with six people in 1997 and now employs 1,100. In 2013, it expanded after securing the contract with Irish Water to operate its call centre.