Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I suggested last year and I suggest again this year that it should be made obligatory to show on payment slips to non-registered farmers what the processor or mart is paying and, separately, what the State is paying in terms of a VAT rebate. This would allow farmers to identify from milk cheques and so forth where the 0.2% increase takes effect and the point at which they obtain the benefit. In certain cases last year, it was just followed up. We could make this minor adjustment in the finance Act. Perhaps the Minister will suggest it to the Minister for Finance.

The rest of the Minister's large tax package will cost €5.9 million in one year, which amounts to less than €50 per farmer. It is clearly targeted at a narrow tax base and will not affect the vast majority of farmers in any given year. The Minister was asked to take certain measures.

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