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Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (21 Jul 2016)

Michael Noonan: Member State contributions to the EU Budget are based upon a formula which includes Traditional Own Resources (customs duties), a VAT-based payment and a residual balancing component paid in accordance with each Member State's share of EU Gross National Income (GNI). Ireland's receipts from and contributions to the EU Budget for the years 2010 to 2015 are set out in the table below. YEAR...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Jul 2016)

Michael Noonan: The Programme for a Partnership Government states that increased public spending and reductions in personal taxes will be funded through, among other things, a new tax on sugar sweetened drinks. The revenue raised by such a tax will depend on, among other things, the rate at which it is set, and the types of drinks included within its scope. These issues are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Requests (21 Jul 2016)

Michael Noonan: In response to the Deputy, as of Friday 15th July 2016, a total of 218 FOI requests have been received by the Department of Finance. The Freedom of Information Act sets out a number of standard exemptions which relate to personal information, information covered by legal privilege, records relating to parliamentary matters, information relating to law enforcement and public safety,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Expenditure (21 Jul 2016)

Michael Noonan: The information the Deputy has requested in respect of the Minister and Ministers of State at my Department for the relevant periods is set out in the following tables: Minister Michael Noonan Period Miles Claimed Value of Payment Other Travel Expenses Total 01 January 2016 to 10 March 2016 (January to February) 9,410 €4,648.46 €0.00 €4,648.46 11 March 2016 to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Advisers Data (21 Jul 2016)

Michael Noonan: I wish to advise the Deputy that I have 2 Special Advisors, one who is a Principal Officer in my Department and who has been assigned as Special Advisor, and the other Special Advisor is a political appointment. Below you will find their annual salaries. Name: Role: Salary: Sean Kinsella (Principal Officer) Special Advisor €85,127 Mary Kenny Special Advisor €87,258

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: I move:"That Dáil Éireann:(i) supports the Government decision to appeal the European Commission’s decision that Ireland provided unlawful State aid to Apple; (ii) commits itself to the highest international standards in transparency in the taxation of the corporate sector; (iii) resolves that no company or individual receives preferential tax treatment contrary to the Tax...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: You would want to sell the yacht.

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: The Government decision was to appeal but there was a second leg to the decision, entrusting the development of the grounds for appeal to the Attorney General and her advisers. She will employ counsel and a full legal team led by senior counsel. They will be responsible for the appeal. She has approximately two months to do this under the guidelines and I am sure she will inform the...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: The affairs of individuals and corporations are confidential and the Revenue Commissioners does not give information about the tax affairs of individuals or individual companies to the Minister or anybody else. It is confidential and the information would not be available. The Deputy knows from our debates from 2013 onwards that stateless companies or companies not resident anywhere for tax...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: The Revenue Commissioners are being charged with collecting any arrears deemed to be due. They will advise on the interest rate as well. If I have information on the exact amount of interest or estimates, I will share it with the Deputy, the House and the other finance spokespersons, such as Deputy Michael McGrath. Everybody familiar with the issue of corporation tax and the debate driven...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: If the Commission is advising that it cannot publish until interested parties have an opportunity to redact or advise on redactions from the report, I cannot give the Deputy accurate information on elements of it by stripping out the information in response to questions. In general terms, the competition Commission insists that under state aid rules it is acting in accordance with law and...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: No. It is saying that states have competence on tax matters under the treaties and that this adjudication is not on tax but on state aid where it regards a tax issue as state aid. The Commission will not say it has the competence on tax issues. It is saying it has competence on state aid and that is its space. Is it being used as a Trojan horse? Certainly, the decision will be used as...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: First, the Revenue Commissioners do not regard them as rulings but as opinions. An opinion does not have the force of law underpinning it. In the scrutiny by the Commission of possible state aid to Ireland, it requested a lot of files for a lot of companies. In the first tranche, five opinions were sent to the Commission, and in the second, there were ten. There was a more recent one....

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: I cannot comment on the accuracy of the quotations the Deputy attributes, but I can tell him the position. There is a 130-page document which was generated by the competition Commission which incorporates the context of the decision and the decision itself. The Commission advised us that it would send a copy to Apple and to the Government as the two interested parties and that it would send...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: What were issued in 1991 and 2007 were opinions. There is no suggestion of any political input into those decisions by the Government of the day. The Revenue Commissioners are independent and they decided on independent grounds that this was the position. An opinion arises when a company looks for advice on what the tax situation is. A company is coming into a country and wants to know...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: If the Deputy wants to interrupt me, she can. If she wants to hear my answers, she had better listen. That is the way the Parliament works, we hope.

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: I have had no direct contact with the US Administration on the Apple case. I was in Washington some years ago when I met Mr. Jack Lew. Before that, I used to meet Mr. Tim Geithner frequently. However, general tax issues were under discussion then, not this case. My officials have had discussions with people in the US Treasury, for example, Mr. Bob Stack, who is fairly high up in the...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: There have been state aid interventions with the Aughanish company over many years and there have been appeals. I understand that the matter is under appeal again, but the appeal is not by the State, it is by the company. We are generally aware of it, but it does not concern this issue, namely, tax. It is a different issue. Regarding Revenue informing me, it did not have to. Anyone...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: I have already answered that question.

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Noonan: I was surprised by some elements of the announcement. I was telephoned on what I believe was Tuesday, 23 August, a week before the announcement by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. I knew her because she was the economy Minister from Denmark and attended ECOFIN meetings. I had worked with her for three years, especially on banking union and such like. She had promised earlier through...