The increase in Local Property tax for 64,000 homeowners in Tipperary next year will be great value for money according to some councillors
Councillors voted for a 15-percent increase over the base rate for the next three years at yesterday’s monthly meeting of the local authority.
It’ll be a five percent increase on this year when 10 percent extra is being charged.
Council stats show this will cost less than €10 for 19 out of 20 households and will raise almost €1.7 million extra.
Fianna Fail’s Michael Smith says that works out at 19 cent a week for most families but will result in a million Euro extra for the General Municipal Allocation which can be spent on community activities like festivals, parades, and Arts and Leisure centres to improve everyone’s lives.
In a contentious debate in the council chamber Sinn Fein’s David Dunne argued that the rate should be reduced by 10 percent to the national base rate.
He says we need a better system for controlling how this extra money in the GMA fund will be spent.
