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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I do not think the Revenue Commissioners have any role whatsoever in the non-principal private residence, NPPR, tax. Will the Revenue Commissioners share data with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The figure for deferrals and exemptions is 3%. The Government estimated that there would be a 15% deferral rate when it announced this tax and assumed an income of €500 million in a full year based on a rate of deferrals of 15%. Based on the calculations presented to this committee by Ms Feehily, with a 97% compliance rate or a 3% deferral rate, the tax would yield an additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, €70 million - seven zero. The Government suggested a 15% deferral rate but we now know that the rate is only 3%. What could potentially offset that is the return of forms with lower valuations than the Revenue Commissioners' estimate. Does Ms Feehily have any indication as to the percentage of returns with a lower band rating than the one proposed by the Revenue Commissioners?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Revenue Commissioners' figure for exemptions and deferrals is 3%. My understanding is that in the budget book that was presented with the figures for the tax take for this year and next, the 15% figure was based on deferrals only and did not include exemptions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. The 3% figure presented by Ms Feehily represents both deferrals and exemptions. Is there a breakdown available for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Ms Feehily said that people who receive a reminder letter and comply within an appropriate period will not be deemed late. If a self-employed person requiring a tax clearance certificate who has missed the deadline set in legislation gets a reminder letter and then complies, will he or she then be deemed to be in compliance with the legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: If a self-employed person does not comply with the reminder letter and has the tax deducted from his or her bank account, at what point and through what process can that individual become tax compliant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: My key question concerns a self-employed person or business person who requires a tax clearance certificate. After the LPT is deducted at source by the Revenue Commissioners, the person is still not tax-compliant and will not receive a tax clearance certificate from the Revenue Commissioners until he or she has filed a return. Can Ms Feehily outline how the individual can do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: A nil return?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The facility does not exist online for someone to do that at this point in time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Revenue Commissioners planning to create a system to allow for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I just have one final, brief question. I ask Ms Feehily to examine two issues. The first is the household charge that will be pursued by the Revenue Commissioners from 1 July and the second is the non-principal private residence charge, which will not exist from 2014 but which has been collected by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government up to now. What is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses. It would be appropriate if, at the end of this discussion, there was a statement from the Revenue on the allegations from the US Senate about Apple and Revenue and the special tax arrangements. Without diverging from the subject under discussion but given that it is in the public interest and all over the media, this is an opportunity for a brief. The committee...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason that rent supplement is not payable directly to the landlord; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25712/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of all transport services which are co-funded by her Department in respect of persons with disabilities for each of the past four years; and the amount of funding allocated to them and their locations. [25713/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gross National Product Forecast (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a projection on the expected GNP of Ireland in the next three years including redomiciled public limited companies and excluding redomiciled public limited companies. [25969/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gross National Income Forecast (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance what Ireland’s GNI for the past five years would have been excluding redomiciled public limited companies; the amount by which Ireland’s contribution to the EU budget would have been reduced if these redomiciled public limited companies were excluded from the GNI figures for these years. [25970/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a 1998 report produced by his Department on Irish registered non resident companies which stated that IRNR companies have posed a threat to Ireland's international image and its reputation as a well-regulated jurisdiction for conducting business and that the companies are regularly advertised for sale in magazines...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance if the findings of a 1998 Department of Finance report on Irish Registered Non-Registered Companies were ever enacted on, including the recommendations for company law and taxation elements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26064/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views following a 1998 report on Irish Registered Non-Resident Companies by his Department that changes need to be made to IRNR companies that change the tax residence rules where registration entails a test of tax residence as an alternative to the control and management test. [26066/13]