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 Revenue Commissioners A new website, www.revenue.ie, indicating property values on which the soon to be introduced property tax will be based, has now gone on line.
While Revenue are anxious to stress that the valuations given on this website are for guidance only, home owners can now check the estimated value of their current property in their immediate area.
This new online service provides a guide to average market values of properties in a given locality and offers an indicative valuation band for properties depending on type, age and location. It does not provide market values for individual properties.
The guidance is primarily based on the market value of properties sold since the year 2010 in the area, adjusted for average price movements in the interim.
Thurles Urban Estimated Values
Thurles valuations vary depending on the date of construction e.g. before the year 2000 or after and are shown as follows:-
Apartment/Flat: €0 – €100,000.
Bungalow: €100,001 – €150,000.
Detached: €100,001 – €150,000.
Semi-Detached: €100,000 – €150,000.
Terraced: €0 – €100,000.
Tax deducted under self assessment requires property owners to honestly assess the market value of their own property. If a property is smaller or larger than the average for the area, is in a significantly poor state of repair or has exceptional or unique features, this will have to be factored into the assessment of the valuation band of the property by the Revenue.
See also http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/lpt/property-valuation-guide.html
Home owners/Taxpayers are due to receive letters from this week onwards, outlining how this new tax works, including a rough estimate of their property’s value. This communication will include a two-page form that must be filled out and returned to Revenue by a date in May next.
 The Fine Gael TD Noel Coonan has welcomed an allocation of almost €4million towards the restoration of roads in North Tipperary. Alongside this, a €72,727 Drainage Grant has been ring-fenced for the constituency.
“Of the €3,990,918 allocated under the restoration improvement scheme, North Tipperary County Council can transfer €1,197,275 of this money to the Discretionary Grant. This will allow the local authority considerably more freedom in how they spend their roads grants and allow them to focus on monies on emergency repairs,” explained Deputy Coonan.
“This new initiative was made this morning (Friday) by my Fine Gael colleague and Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar. The purpose of the initiative is to maintain rural roads by allowing local authorities permission to re-focus Government road funding of €42 million on the upkeep and maintenance of the existing road network. The Minister has met with delegates from a number of local authorities who have asked for greater flexibility in how they can spend their road funding. That is why the Government is giving permission to local authorities to re-allocate €42 million from the existing Restoration Improvement Grant for other uses, such as pothole repairs and repairs to road surfaces.
The issue of poor drainage has consistently been highlighted as an issue in the degradation of local roads in particular. Minister Varadkar has created a fund of €2.7m that can be used specifically to improve road drainage, clear remove surface water, repair the road surface and remove potholes and to address existing road drainage problem areas. In North Tipperary we have received a €72,727 Drainage Grant,” continued Deputy Coonan.
There is now no longer a requirement that a minimum of 90% of works in the ‘Restoration Improvement,’ category, must in future be solely road reconstruction and thus allows County Councils nationwide, to have the flexibility to undertake much needed surface restoration work.
 Thurles Mayor – Councillor Michael Cleary. Thurles Town is to get its long awaited Town Park.
This welcome news was announced at last night’s Thurles Town Council monthly meeting, much to the delight of all Councillors in attendance.
Local Council representatives were strong in their praise for the efforts of Mr Matt Short (Town Manager) and Mr Michael Ryan (Town Clerk), both major negotiators in this property purchase.
The land, which consists of some 8 acres, was purchased from St Patrick’s College here in Thurles and is understood to include a further 2 acres, purchased at the rear of the College, for the construction of possible relief road. The latter property links from Erin foods across onto the Mill road and if the relief road envisaged can be funded, same would greatly assist the town’s presently congested traffic flow through the town’s centre.
The next stage of this operation is for a design team to be put in place and for planning permission to be sought, with the hope that the park will be fully ready in the next few years for all people to take pride in and to enjoy the substantial benefits that this town enhancement will now offer.
Speaking to Thurles Mayor Mr Michael Cleary this morning, who welcomed this news, the Mayor stated; “I would like to thank all parties involved in the negotiations surrounding this project & the various Councils both past & present who over the years put aside money for this important project. The emergence of this Town Park, positioned beside the present Swimming Pool and the Source Arts Centre, will hugely complement the present town centre.”
Fine Gael TD Noel Coonan has also welcomed the purchase of the eight acres at St Patrick’s College, Thurles, stating, “This Town Park will in time prove to be a brilliant amenity for the people of Thurles and its environs. It is great news that a modern recreational facility will finally be made available to Thurles. I know it is very much welcomed by everyone living in the Cathedral Town and I look forward to helping with the development of the park and I very much look forward to construction commencing,“concluded Deputy Coonan.
St Patrick’s College have been extremely accommodating in the past, with the gifting, some years ago, of town centre land, latter which presently is occupied by our excellent Swimming Pool and the Source Arts Centre.
 As was forecast, four Unions, all claiming the Government’s Austerity agenda is totally unacceptable, have walked out of current Croke Park discussions this evening.
The unions involved are; Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU) and Unite.
All those who have exited the talks have described the present Coalition Government’s demands, which aimed at cutting an extra €1bn from the State payroll, by introducing premium payments for working evenings and weekends, outsourcing, and wage cuts for higher paid public servants, as totally unrealistic.
Irish Medical Organisation’s (INMO) General Secretary Liam Doran stated that if the Government moved to legislate for pay cuts, they would mobilise ‘by all means at their disposal,’ to resist these measures and threatened that they would be looking very long and hard at TDs who entered Leinster House to cut the pay of people earning only half their wages. INMO state that this decision to withdraw was taken by their Executive Council after it became apparent that there was no possibility of the ongoing process continuing to protect the existing income of their members.
Ireland’s largest public sector union IMPACT, have confirmed that they will be remaining in the talks for the time being, thus leaving limited negotiations still ongoing.
 Ratepayers, whose accounts show outstanding arrears on the books of North Tipperary Co Council and who are making no effort to pay their legal & just dues, are to be publicly “named and shamed.” So stated County Manager Mr Joe MacGrath at last Monday’s official meeting of North Tipperary Co Council.
Accounts show that more than 20% of all Rate Payers in North Tipperary are now in arrears, with in excess of €1.8 million of these taxes remaining uncollected, carried forward from the Council’s fiscal year 2012.
Mr MacGrath is gravely concerned regarding North Tipperary Co Council’s ability to deliver full services, while some Rate paying business people, who owe water charges, are refusing to pay or in simply in arrears.
Mr MacGrath stated, that within the Council’s defaulting category, there were a few ratepayers who had made no attempt whatsoever to pay and were frustrating the Co County Council appointed Rate collectors.
While appreciating the current very difficult trading environment now facing many business people in North Tipperary, Mr MacGrath stated that the majority of ratepayers had fully engaged with the Co Council, and where deemed necessary, some had worked out a future payment plan to fully meet their legal commitments.
Manager MacGrath intimated that defaulting Rate Payers were now being put on full & final notice as to North Tipperary Co Council’s future intentions, and he encouraged those who were struggling or refusing to pay their rates, to now engage in dialogue, discussing their particular problems with his Council’s Collection Officials.
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