SF admits orchestrating bulk of 400 property tax submissions

Sinn Féin has admitted orchestrating the bulk of the 400 submissions which Kerry County Council received from members of the public, calling for the maximum reduction in local property tax.

The submissions were referred to at a meeting to decide the issue on Monday last in which Sinn Féin formally proposed a full 15% reduction on the 2015 tax in Kerry. The motion was defeated overwhelmingly.

Yesterday, one of the Sinn Féin councillors who was behind the effort, said Sinn Féin did nothing under- handed in not revealing it was behind more than 300 of the 405 submissions received by the council from the public.