Local authority taxes rise 1.3%

Monday 29 March 2010

Local authority taxes are set to rise an average 1.3% this year, which is just above inflation, according to the local government research institute Coelo in Monday's Financieele Dagblad.

The increase is 'mysterious', considering the financial problems facing many of the country's 431 local councils, the paper said.

'The increase has never been so low,' Coelo director Maarten Allers told the paper. 'I would have expected councils would act in advance of the expected cuts [in government contributions] but they have not.'

The biggest local authority tax, based on property values, accounts for some 75% of local authority tax income.

The cheapest place in the Netherlands in terms of local taxes is Zevenaar near Arnhem, with an average charge of €474. Blaricum, near Hilversum, is most expensive, with an average fee of €1,166.

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