Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. John Palmer:

They are not all behind profile but it is probably best to look at it in year-on-year terms. Some of the taxes such as life assurance exit tax, which is put into the income tax pot, is down for the first quarter by approximately €25 million year-on-year according to Revenue. Schedule D is a little behind. DIRT - which we are expecting - is €33 million behind. It is a combination of some of these smaller taxes being behind and then USC coming in lower than anticipated. Obviously, given the budgetary package, we were expecting to have reduced revenue in USC this year but the loss rate from the package is running higher than had been anticipated. This is why we shall do this piece of work with Revenue to try define the characteristics of that and see if there are any reasons that can be clearly identified.

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