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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is my poor English.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 83: In page 79, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “62. Section 80 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting a new subsection between subsections (5) and (6) to read as follows: “(5A) Where, in relation to a supply of agricultural produce or an agricultural service by a flat-rate farmer, an invoice is issued, that invoice must carry a VAT...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That has been the priority for the past two years. The Betting (Amendment) Bill was published in July. This has been signalled. The 2% increase was included in the Finance Act 2010, but a decision was then taken not to proceed with it. The Minister of State is 100% right, in that online exchanges should have been subject to this excise tax. Additional questions arise. I have met some of...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 79: In page 73, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:"52. The Minister shall, within one month of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on options available for the introduction of a rate of 3 per cent betting duty for online and in shop bets.”.This calls for a report on the options available to introduce a 3%...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This amendment is not restrictive of commercial space. The problem is that if the Minister is bringing forward a section 42 which deals solely with capital gains tax for properties, excluding residential properties, that would a different debate. We are in a mess with mortgage arrears because of buy-to-let properties. People are not stupid. Prices are rock bottom and they will increase....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: They have hit the bottom in terms of the trajectory where they have fallen by 55%.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Of course, we are only playing with-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Nobody ever calls it a bubble until it bursts. I am not suggesting it is a bubble, but there is definitely an issue. There was logic in introducing this measure last year because there was next to no activity in the market. The measure aimed to encourage people to have a look-around. There is activity now, but there is also a supply issue. I agree with the Minister of State that we have...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: What about the requirement on the purchaser to farm the land?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Can they dispose of the land and obtain this relief?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This new section provides them with the relief for the first time if they dispose of the land. I can understand it with regard to renting the land and I do not have a big issue with it, even though it moves away from the child. Before this, in disposing of the land for the first time, if it went to the child, the relief would have been available.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: In this section is there a requirement on the person who purchases the land to actually farm it?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State explain that to me again?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is exactly my point, 100%. The relief - 90% or something like this - is available for farmers to hand over the asset to the children and not be subject to capitals gains tax. We are now extending it to cover renting to people other than the child, which is understandable because if one rents the farm, it will be farmers who will farm it. If one disposes of it - this is about...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: If I was a farmer in County Meath with a farm in the commuter belt, somebody was interested in building one or two houses on it and I was to dispose of my farm-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I would obtain the relief, but somebody could build a couple of houses on the farm I had just sold, as happened a number of years ago.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but I have been farming it for ten years. The point is that up until now, if I was a farmer who had been farming for ten or more years and decided to hand over the farm to a child, I would have obtained this relief. It was provided to keep the farm in the family. I can now hand over the farm to anybody who can use it for any purpose, including building property, and still obtain the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Are they obtaining relief at a rate of 90% on the capital gains?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Therefore, if small farmers in my constituency and on the west coast who have been farming for ten years or more are over 55 years, they can sell their farm to an individual to be used for any purpose and now benefit from this tax measure?