COUNTY’S BUSINESSPEOPLE WANT RATES REVALUATION TO REFLECT COMMERCIAL REALITIES

Peter Hughes

The process of rates revaluation underway in Co Monaghan should reflect the commercial realities facing local businesses on the ground, a public meeting held in Monaghan Town last week was told.

Around 100 ratepayers from across the county assembled in the Four Seasons Hotel for a public information session on the process that will see owners of commercial premises in the county receive new assessments from the Valuation Office in March of next year.

The office’s Head of Valuation Services Declan Lavelle said that rates reductions had been the outcome for a majority of businesses in the…