Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)

Various groups contacted me about this, including Amnesty International, the Free Legal Advice Centres, FLAC, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, Front Line and the Wheel. They are concerned about this argument. They say that the Bill already provides that even if the charities regulator recognises an organisation as a charity the Revenue Commissioners have the discretion to refuse to grant the same organisation charitable status from a taxation perspective. Is there an anomaly there? Could the regulator give charitable status which the Revenue Commissioners would refuse?

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