Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Redmond for his response. What responses, if any, were obtained from the departmental officials who engaged in the consultation process? Was their response that this is not their problem? Fundamentally, people are expected to pay their tax returns at the end of June but they do not have that cashflow now. A shorter tax year might work if a person only had to pay what was reaped in until the end of June. Given that we were going to expect people to pay tax returns up to 31 December in respect of money which they have not yet taken in, from where did Revenue expect them to get that money?