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Dublin City Council Misinformation

category dublin | bin tax / household tax / water tax | news report author Monday January 16, 2006 16:34author by Bin Tax Campaigner

Dublin City Council are lying about the amount of households who've paid the Bin Tax.

Last week DCC claimed that 95% of households have paid the Bin Tax. Today they claimed it was 80%. Here are the accurate figures as provided in a reply to Cllr. Joan Collins (Ind.).

Waiver: 40,000 households
Fully Paid: 35,000 households
Not paid/Arrears: 36,000 households

So over half the households due to pay have not paid the tax in full or have not paid at all. This does not take into account the fact that many households have withdrawn from the service (one quarter nationally) and that rates of non-payment are much higher than average in working class areas of the city.

Check Indymedia for info on public meetings throughout Dublin this week.


http://www.indymedia.ie/article/73816

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