Calls to make property tax ‘fair’

Private housing estates should pay 35% less local property tax (LPT), because they do not receive the same services as estates looked after by local authorities.

That is the opinion of some Cork county councillors, who are writing to the Government asking it to drop LPT rates for householders who pay for estate maintenance themselves.

Cllr Marcia D’Alton proposed the move. She said it was not equitable that householders in such estates should be charged the same as everybody else, and that a 35% reduction “would reflect the lower level of local authority service delivered to estates not taken in charge by them”.