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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Obviously we table parliamentary questions for the Minister to scope out different options. One of IBEC's proposals is to increase the entry point to the marginal tax rate by €2,000. It claims the gross cost of this would be €240 million per year. I received a reply to a parliamentary question to the Minister which states that an increase for that marginal tax rate by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: IBEC's figures are not calculated by the Revenue Commissioners. The Department's figure arises when it asks the Revenue Commissioners about how many people are employed today.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 202. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by increasing the price of cigarettes by 10 cent and 20 cent respectively as well as proportionately across other tobaccos products. [31218/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by introducing a tax on e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine by 1 cent, 2 cent, 3 cent, 5 cent,10 cent,15 cent and 20 cent respectively. [31219/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Regulations (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by enacting the taxation provisions of the Betting (Amendment) Bill, but applying 3% to online bets and 15% on gross profit tax for remote betting intermediaries as well as extending an additional 2% to the betting shop tax, bringing it to 3%, and ensuring that this tax is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Regulations (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by enacting the taxation provisions of the Betting (Amendment) Bill, but applying 3% to online bets and 15% on gross profit tax for remote betting intermediaries; as well as extending an additional 2% to the betting shop tax, bringing it to 3%, and ensuring that this tax is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Regulations (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by enacting the taxation provisions of the Betting (Amendment) Bill, but applying 3% to online bets and 15% on gross profit tax for remote betting intermediaries as well as extending an additional 2% to the betting shop tax, bringing it to 3%, and ensuring that this tax is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by a 0.25%, 0.5%, 1%, 2%, 5%, and 10% sugar tax respectively on soft sugary drinks, as proposed by the Irish Heart Foundation. [31225/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer from the introduction of a new rate of 48% on a person's income in excess of €100,000. [31226/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year cost to the Exchequer from exempting income earners below €17,542 per annum from the universal social charge. [31256/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year cost to the Exchequer of not increasing universal social charge from 4% for a series of earners in 2015, as planned, and the offset to this cost of maintaining the higher rate of USC for the self-employed from 10% to 7%. [31258/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by increasing the rate of capital gains tax from 33% to 40%. [31228/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance whether it is possible and the amount that would be raised by eliminating the capital gains tax exemption for seven years for properties bought from December 2011 to 2013. [31229/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer from abolishing capital gains tax exemptions for private principal residences sold in excess of €1 million. [31230/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 240. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year cost to the Exchequer of dividing the capital gains tax categories into passive and active and applying a 40% rate to the passive CGT activity, that is, buying shares and the existing rate to active engagement, that is, selling on a business. [31260/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by increasing capital acquisitions tax to 40%. [31231/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by increasing capital acquisitions tax to 40% and reduce the group thresholds by 10%, 15% and 20% respectively. [31232/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by reducing the group thresholds for capital acquisitions tax by 10%, 15% and 20% respectively. [31233/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by increasing the once-off charge for establishing a discretionary trust by 1% and the annual charge for a trust from 1% to 1.5%. [31234/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by the introduction of a new 1% wealth tax on net assets in excess of €1 million, excluding qualified provisions such as working farmland, the first 20% of a family home, capital sums in pension funds, business assets, applying to global assets for those domiciled or...