Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion

3:00 pm

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask the delegates for their views on the rates issue. In our efforts to resolve the issue, it seems like a mission impossible because there are so many vested interests who do not want to deal with it. The Revenue Commissioners do not want to get involved because rating small businesses according to profit is very difficult. There is also an argument that if this were done, it would be seen as a business or corporation tax and would be very hard to sell to the business community, even if it resulted in no change overall.

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