Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage
2:00 pm
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
Section 6 allows for a certificate to be given to a group of inventions. Can the Minister explain this? My concern is that minor upgrades or improvements in a particular innovation could be made just for the purposes of getting the tax break and the certificate. They would not necessarily have to be new innovations. There might be one new thing to which minor changes are made, which then qualify for a tax break but this is not really innovation.
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