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| Council has to rebate MoD rates | Council has to rebate MoD rates |
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| Derry City Council has been ordered to repay the Ministry of Defence £76,000 after it successfully appealed its rates bill. | Derry City Council has been ordered to repay the Ministry of Defence £76,000 after it successfully appealed its rates bill. |
| The money, for two bases on the Limavady Road, is being backdated to 2003. | The money, for two bases on the Limavady Road, is being backdated to 2003. |
| It comes just days after the Lands and Property Services admitted a major miscalculation of the council's rates estimate for the last financial year. | It comes just days after the Lands and Property Services admitted a major miscalculation of the council's rates estimate for the last financial year. |
| SDLP Councillor Helen Quigley described the mistakes as "unacceptable". | |
| "Derry City Council for the second time in as many weeks will now have to refund through errors made by the Land and and Property Services," she said. | |
| "I'm seriously concerned about this organisation - the manner in which they're operating. | |
| "And certainly our council has written to the Public Accounts Committee, the Auditor General and the minister." |