Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011
1:00 pm
Mr. Michael O'Keeffe:
When the contracted is signed, there is an allocation based on different stages. The particular cases we are talking about are section 481 cases. In order to qualify for section 481 tax relief, we must allocate that level of funding, 90%, on the signing of the contract. However, the safeguard we have is the money does not go to the independent producer at that point. It goes into a defeasance account and that is protected.
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