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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 100 and 117 together. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has informed me that the draft maps indicating the land that falls within the scope of the RZLT were published by all 31 local authorities in respect of land within their administrative areas on 1 November 2022. These maps are available on the websites of each local authority...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I engaged with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when we were bringing in the changes. In fairness to the Minister, he raised the same issues the Deputy has just raised a year ago when we were designing this new tax. He raised the issue of land in smaller towns that could be owned by farmers and is zoned for residential use. Our judgment - the Deputy will know this better...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I hope the last recourse in this regard will be the involvement of An Bord Pleanála, which is having enough demands placed on it. Like the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, I want and expect any questions or concerns regarding the status of land to be dealt with by local authorities. It should not involve having to use An Bord Pleanála in any way. The Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The VAT rating of goods and services is subject to the requirements of EU VAT law, with which our law must comply. As the Deputy is aware, significant changes have now occurred with regard to that. The tax strategy group, TSG, published a paper earlier this year outlining some of the options now available for Ireland and other member states to consider. I suspect the one the Deputy is most...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. We have been engaging with the European Commission, particularly in respect of the VAT directive that was introduced earlier in the year. The engagement we have had with the OECD has concentrated on other areas of taxation rather than the area to which the Deputy has referred. As I said, this is a new area of flexibility that has been granted to us. We are going to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. I thank the committee in advance for its work and co-operation in dealing with this important legislation. I recall the similar amendments brought forward during last year's Finance Bill. We discussed many of the issues the Deputy has just touched on and I am pleased to do so again in the context of this Bill because important political matters are at stake...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputies for their questions. I will begin with the Deputies who spoke first and will come to Deputy Boyd Barrett shortly. I accept that Deputy Mattie McGrath is simply looking for a report on these matters. The reason I am not in a position to agree to his amendment is the issues he is calling for a report on are covered every year in the tax strategy group papers. We...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I did say that is if the OECD agreement is fully implemented. Even in our current tax code, the average level of tax large corporate employers pay in Ireland is between 10% and 11%. The difference between taxation on capital and labour and profit on labour, for those on low incomes, is not as big as the Deputy would argue it to be. I read the Deputy's budget submissions - he knows I do -...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I will deal with the different points that have been put to me. First, I did say that corporate tax is a tax on profit. I said that and made that clear. I stand over what I said. Looking at the average level of tax on income versus the average level of tax on profit, because of changes that have taken place in our tax code, the average level of tax large companies are paying on their...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not hear you talk about it any more.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not hear the Deputy talk about it any more. We can go through the debate we had earlier in the Dáil about his party's alternative budget, which has magically appeared on its website since we last spoke.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The reality-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The reality is that it was not there. I am not going to demean the dignity of this committee by having to pick up my phone and show pictures of what the website was like before I made my point and what it was like after, but the Deputy knows there is a difference and I know what his party has done. He should not talk to me about the difference between what I said in 2016 or 2017 when I...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Actually, the Deputy is right. I take that back. I should not have said that. The Deputy is fully entitled to make the point and I regret saying that to him. I respect the committee and the contributions that are made. What I will not take back is the point that the Deputy is talking about what I said in 2016 and 2017 when this morning I could not find what he said a few weeks ago. I...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: In response to Deputy Doherty, as I made clear on budget day, the Government has committed to an evaluation of the idea of a 30% rate and given an indication as to the point next year by which we aim to have that work done. We are doing that because it is a way of delivering the indexation of our tax code. However, it is not in line with what we have done over the past few budgets....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: -----he would walk right out of the building.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy would hardly have left the Department of Finance before castigating me. He knows that, and I know it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: What I do-----