Results 14,281-14,300 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just wish to comment that all of these, particularly where there are jumps in the amount of taxable income that can be written down under this heading, need to be, by our committee specifically, examined forensically and we need to know more than we currently know about what is going on here. There is a real problem regarding our ability to scrutinise what is happening under these headings...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Capital gains come under this, do they not?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the figure I was looking for.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I request that the delegates, in providing us with the figures on the effective rate, give us the figures for the various calculations. The delegates know precisely what I mean. There is the implicit rate, the aggregated version and all the other versions, which vary radically. Mr. Howard stated there was an effective rate of 9% in 2015. I calculate €6.8 billion paid as a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want an explanation of how it was done. I want the different calculations provided.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is actually not what I want. The Department of Finance prepared a paper on the corporation tax rate. It is a very good paper which explained that there are at least four different ways of calculating the effective rate. That paper showed that one can get, for the very same year on the basis of the same figures, a variation in the effective tax rate. The rate can be around 6% if it is...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to point out to the Acting Chairman and the committee that this is a real problem. We have a paper produced by the Department of Finance that shows that there are at least four different ways of legitimately calculating the effective rate. The figures produced vary very significantly. One can have what is considered a legitimate method of calculating the effective corporation...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Figure 2 on page 2.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Over 2014?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How far back could Revenue go in terms of its ability to reproduce that graph? Could it be done for 2016?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it be possible to provide us with the same graph for the previous ten years? Would that be a lot of work or-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This graph is not on the website.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I must be honest that I find it difficult. The thing I presume the witnesses are referring to on the website is a paper which is not very readable and which was quite difficult to find. It is not as clearly set out as a previous manifestation which used to be available.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not really okay but we will see how we go from here. By the way, I do appreciate all of the witnesses' work, even if I am being a bit pushy.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It worries me that over recent weeks, the only serious policy issue that emerged was the rather shocking attack by Deputy Varadkar on welfare cheats and a group of people who supposedly do not get up before 7 a.m. That was a new low in politics. It was very divisive and showed a deep level of prejudice against those who suffer inequality and hardship but skated over the fact that, as...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wonder where Deputy Burton got that idea.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Coppinger and-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop the clock.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Ruth Coppinger and Mick Barry. First, I extend my sympathies to the victims of the horrendous fire in London. We do not yet know how many there are but the scenes are shocking and we should extend our support for, and solidarity with, the people there. We do not know why the fire took place, but very serious questions are being asked. I am no expert in this...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for ending pay inequality across the public sector in the context of the public sector pay talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26271/17]