Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary)
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
They would have viewed that the design of the tax facilitated airlines with more business coming from airports more than 300 km away from Dublin. The European Commission formed a view that the tax was not designed properly. It meant that journeys within the European Union were taxed in a different way depending on where the journey began. That Government and its successors became involved with a state aid issue with the Commission. The €2 and €10 taxes were subsequently merged into a single tax of €3. The airlines took the view that the design of the tax in the first place had been unfair and given advantage to other companies.
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