Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance

1:30 pm

Mr. John McCarthy:

The point is that this will essentially be some form of charge rather than a tax per se. If some form of water charge is introduced, it is a charge rather than a tax. I am coming at this purely from a taxation perspective and what that means for public finances and taxation policy more generally.