‘Councils should retain 100% of property tax’

Road repairs, grass-cutting, and other services are not being delivered to a lot of people in Co Cork as the local authority is starved of money due to the Government taking 20% of the local property tax (LPT).

The county council is urging the Government to adopt the recommendations of the Thornhill Report which stated that 100% of the LPT collected by each local authority be retained by it.

The LPT raises €40.8m in Co Cork annually of which the Government seizes €8.168m.