Mayor Haraldur L. Haraldsson has sent a letter to the Association of Icelandic Local Authorities regarding a collection fee to the state for the collection of property tax, and the letter was presented at a meeting of the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Town Council today.<\/p>\n
The Municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has requested that the board of the Association of Icelandic Municipalities lobby the national government to reduce the collection fee paid to the state for the collection of property tax, bringing it in line with the fee as it was originally when the state took on this task.\u00a0 Emphasis is placed on the board of the Association of Icelandic Municipalities advocating for this reduction to be implemented at the start of next year.<\/p>\n
Haraldur L. Haraldsson says that among the findings of a Capacent report on an evaluation of the town's operations and organisational structure, it was revealed that the fee paid to the state for the collection of business rates has increased significantly.\u00a0 The explanation for this is that the collection fee as a percentage of the amount collected has remained unchanged, i.e. 0.51%, at the same time as the percentage of property tax has increased significantly. <\/p>\n
\u201eIt must be considered reasonable that the proportion of the fee paid to the Treasury should decrease in line with an increase in the council tax rate.\u00a0 If it is considered that the remuneration to the Treasury, 0.5%, covered the Treasury's costs of collecting council tax when the maximum council tax rate was 7,5%, it can be inferred that the Treasury is making a substantial profit from collecting council tax when the maximum rate has been raised to 14.48TP3T with an unchanged collection fee.\u00a0 It must be considered a legitimate demand of local authorities that this rate be lowered, not least in view of the difficult financial situation of many of them.\u00a0 In light of this, it is only right that local authorities demand that the collection fee be increased to 0.25%, given that the maximum property tax, which is currently 14.48%,\u00a0 but was 7.51% when the collection fee was set at 0.51%. It cannot be right that the Treasury is profiting from collecting council tax on behalf of the local authorities. says Haraldur in the letter presented today.<\/p>\n
Haraldur also points out that since the agreement was made, there has been a significant change in all the technology used for debt collection, and that the number of sheriff's offices, which have been responsible for the collection, has been reduced or they have been merged, as has been the case in the capital region.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haraldur L. Haraldsson b\u00e6jarstj\u00f3ri hefur sent Sambandi \u00edslenskra sveitarf\u00e9laga br\u00e9f er var\u00f0ar innheimtu\u00fe\u00f3knun til r\u00edkisins vegna innheimtu \u00fatsvars og var br\u00e9fi\u00f0 lagt fram \u00e1 fundi b\u00e6jarr\u00e1\u00f0s Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar \u00ed dag. Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r hefur \u00f3ska\u00f0 eftir \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 stj\u00f3rn Sambands \u00edslenskra sveitarf\u00e9laga beiti s\u00e9r fyrir \u00fev\u00ed gagnvart r\u00edkissj\u00f3\u00f0i a\u00f0 innheimtu\u00fe\u00f3knun til r\u00edkisins vegna innheimtu \u00fatsvars ver\u00f0i l\u00e6kku\u00f0 og […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12789"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}