Whitaker Institute member Dr Gerard Turley, of the Performance Management cluster, has written a new article for RTÉ Brainstorm. The piece breaks down the meanings behind the terms and acronyms around the local property tax.
Local property tax: a guide to the A to Z of LPT
LPT, ARV, LAF, VSL SVT, WTF?
Analysis: just what do the alphabet soup of terms and acronyms around the local property tax actually mean?
Anyone trying to understand property taxes must be puzzled by the increasing appearance and use of acronyms, such as ARV, LPT, LAF and more recently VSL and SVT. So, what do these acronyms mean, and how can they be decoded? Here is a brief guide to the alphabet soup of property taxes in Ireland’s system of local government. Continue reading...
