Results 2,861-2,880 of 36,054 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the earnings cap for pensions contributions; and the estimated return to the Exchequer if the earnings cap was reduced to €75,000 and pensions tax reliefs then granted at 20%. [38292/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated once off saving for the Exchequer by abolishing the ability of incorporated bodies to claim trading losses against profits made in previous years for the purposes of tax returns. [38293/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated savings for the Exchequer in 2013 and in a full year from standardising tax reliefs. [38294/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list remaining property tax reliefs; if he will state the legacy cost of these reliefs on the Exchequer and the estimated return to the Exchequer of abolishing these reliefs in 2013 and in a full year. [38295/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated return to the Exchequer from introducing a tax on online gambling of 5%. [38296/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated return to the Exchequer from increasing the tax on betting shop profits from 1% to 5%. [38297/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the potential for a wealth tax; and the estimated return to the Exchequer from a 1% wealth tax on individual wealth in excess of €1 million. [38298/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2012 (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if a preliminary impact assessment, including an assessment on the cost to the Exchequer from the measures contained within, of the 2012 Finance Act has been undertaken; and if so, if he will state its findings. [38299/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the principal person or persons at an audit firm (details supplied) who was or were responsible for the audit of the financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2008, of the bank formerly known as Anglo Irish Bank which is now 100% owned by the State. [38304/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken by the bank formerly known as Anglo Irish Bank to seek redress from an audit firm (details supplied) in respect of any failure to identify irregularities in the financial statements for the year ended 30 September, 2008. [38306/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken by him or agencies acting under his aegis to seek redress from auditors (details supplied) in respect of any failure to identify irregularities in the financial statements for Anglo Irish Bank. [38307/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the principal person or persons at an audit firm (details supplied) who was or were responsible for the audit of the financial statements for the year ended 31 December, 2008 at Irish Life and Permanent which is now 99% owned by the State. [38305/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the heading in the Exchequer statement to which the circa €32.5m award in the case of a company (details supplied) and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, will be charged; if he will confirm the quantum of legal costs incurred to date by the State in this matter. [38308/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Legal Cases (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance following the judgment in the case of a company (details supplied) in respect of the Garda station on Harcourt Terrace, Dublin, the reason the completion notices served upon the State by the company and the Affordable Homes Partnership, were not responded to as noted in the judgment. [38309/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Revenue (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised for the Exchequer in residential house sale related stamp duty for each year from 2000 to date in 2012. [38348/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Application (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if stamp duty on residential homes will be abolished if a property tax is introduced. [38349/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Guarantee Scheme (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recently published report and accounts for the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation for the six months ending June 2012, which state that IBRC will be wound down by 2020, if he will explain the way in which the operation of the Anglo/Irish Nationwide Building Society promissory notes will be affected, and specifically what will happen to the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Bonds (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recently published report and accounts for the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation for the six months ending June 2012, which state that IBRC will be wound down by 2020, the way the claw back of any ultimate losses at the National Asset Management Agency pursuant to section 225 of the NAMA Act will be affected by this; and specifically the way NAMA...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Guarantee Scheme (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the most recent projected ultimate outturn at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in which he is the sole shareholder; and if the management of IBRC still believes there will be a return of funds to the State. [38496/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Guarantee Scheme (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if the most recent projected ultimate outturn at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in which he is the sole shareholder takes account of the circa €13billion total lifetime interest that is presently payable on the €31billion of promissory notes originally provided to IBRC. [38497/12]