Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners
Mr. Chad Egan:
They absolutely should not have those concerns. We will not be knocking on their doors. We understand the issues raised by the Senator. We are focused on trying to provide clarity and ensuring the guidance is as comprehensive as possible. We want to make sure people, especially farmers who are making claims and making financial decisions, know what is covered. We appreciate that there has been modernisation and technology has changed. All of these products evolve. The best example I have is the slurry scraper. Scraping used to be done manually, with the slurry pulled along the floor. Those devices would still be allowed but there are also robotic scrapers now, which are machines on wheels. We have an appreciation of that. There is no issue with the claims that would have been made in the 1970s and 1980s. We know there has been an evolution in products, with some of them now being more mobile and not fixed. There should be absolutely no concern about us going back over old claims.
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