Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion

Mr. Joe Cullen:

Those preparing the report I mentioned on the tax and fiscal treatment of landlords would have carried out a certain amount of assessment and analysis in 2017. That would have formed the basis of the analysis for the measure. Arguably it was not a new policy move in 2018; it was simply the acceleration of a policy decision that had been taken earlier to restore it to 100% relief.