Abtran receive €9.5m for LPT service

Outsourcing firm, Abtran — which operates the helpline for the Revenue’s local property tax (LPT) — has received fees of almost €10m for providing the service since 2013.

New figures show Abtran has received fees of €1.274m for the first six months of this year and this followed fees paid to the firm of €8.23m between March 2013 and December of last year giving a total of €9.5m.

In 2014 alone, Abtran received fees of €4.65m for providing the helpline service. Abtran started with just six people in 1997 and upped that to 2,000 in 2013. The company expanded after securing the contract with Irish Water to operate its call centre.