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Council Tax

Volume 459: debated on Tuesday 17 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the outturn effective tax rate (ETR) being charged in each council will be in Northern Ireland from April 2007; and what the average council ETR will be in Northern Ireland. (128626)

Individual district councils are responsible for determining the effective tax rate or district rates for both domestic and non-domestic properties. The 2007-08 rates for each council and the average rates for Northern Ireland are set out in the following table.

Pence

District council

Non-Domestic Rate1

Domestic Rate2

Antrim

21.5586

0.2875

Ards

19.8840

0.2409

Armagh

23.5527

0.3174

Ballymena

20.8049

0.2874

Ballymoney

21.5659

0.2768

Banbridge

22.5907

0.3003

Belfast

21.1641

0.2423

Carrickfergus

21.8348

0.2986

Castlereagh

15.5642

0.1871

Coleraine

18.9978

0.2506

Cookstown

19.3003

0.2444

Craigavon

21.8620

0.3395

Deny

23.2804

0.3365

Down

21.7020

0.2873

Dungannon and South Tyrone

18.7035

0.2284

Fermanagh

14.7191

0.2032

Larne

21.9370

0.3236

Limavady

22.8353

0.3335

Lisburn

17.3615

0.2275

Magherafelt

17.5397

0.2214

Moyle

26.2998

0.3245

Newry and Mourne

19.5449

0.2672

Newtownabbey

22.1185

0.2832

North Down

16.5433

0.2235

Omagh

19.9548

0.3243

Strabane

19.9891

0.2937

Average rates

20.2682

0.2677

1 Net Annual Values (NAV) were applied in the calculation of non-domestic rates.

2 Capital values were applied in the calculation of domestic rates.