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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: My key question concerns a self-employed person or business person who requires a tax clearance certificate. After the LPT is deducted at source by the Revenue Commissioners, the person is still not tax-compliant and will not receive a tax clearance certificate from the Revenue Commissioners until he or she has filed a return. Can Ms Feehily outline how the individual can do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: A nil return?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The facility does not exist online for someone to do that at this point in time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Revenue Commissioners planning to create a system to allow for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I just have one final, brief question. I ask Ms Feehily to examine two issues. The first is the household charge that will be pursued by the Revenue Commissioners from 1 July and the second is the non-principal private residence charge, which will not exist from 2014 but which has been collected by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government up to now. What is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses. It would be appropriate if, at the end of this discussion, there was a statement from the Revenue on the allegations from the US Senate about Apple and Revenue and the special tax arrangements. Without diverging from the subject under discussion but given that it is in the public interest and all over the media, this is an opportunity for a brief. The committee...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason that rent supplement is not payable directly to the landlord; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25712/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of all transport services which are co-funded by her Department in respect of persons with disabilities for each of the past four years; and the amount of funding allocated to them and their locations. [25713/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gross National Product Forecast (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a projection on the expected GNP of Ireland in the next three years including redomiciled public limited companies and excluding redomiciled public limited companies. [25969/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gross National Income Forecast (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance what Ireland’s GNI for the past five years would have been excluding redomiciled public limited companies; the amount by which Ireland’s contribution to the EU budget would have been reduced if these redomiciled public limited companies were excluded from the GNI figures for these years. [25970/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a 1998 report produced by his Department on Irish registered non resident companies which stated that IRNR companies have posed a threat to Ireland's international image and its reputation as a well-regulated jurisdiction for conducting business and that the companies are regularly advertised for sale in magazines...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance if the findings of a 1998 Department of Finance report on Irish Registered Non-Registered Companies were ever enacted on, including the recommendations for company law and taxation elements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26064/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views following a 1998 report on Irish Registered Non-Resident Companies by his Department that changes need to be made to IRNR companies that change the tax residence rules where registration entails a test of tax residence as an alternative to the control and management test. [26066/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered imposing limits on the transfer of losses within group companies; if such a precedent exists for this limiting in other States; the conditions that currently apply to the transfer of losses in group companies. [26067/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated loss to the Exchequer in corporation tax as a result of loss transfers among group companies; his views on whether this is aggressive tax planning and avoidance; the steps he has taken to alleviate the impact of this on the Exchequer; and the steps he has taken at European level to ensure this type of activity is limited. [26070/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax data on multinational companies based here is collated separately; and if so, if he will state the minimum effective rate of tax paid by multinational corporations to the Exchequer. [26068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if corporation tax was applied to dividends received by one Irish resident company from another Irish resident company. [26069/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated loss to the Exchequer from the corporation tax exemption from capital gains on gains arising on the disposal of substantial shareholdings where the Irish parented group is engaged in trading activities and the subsidiary is resident in an EU Member State or a tax treaty country. [26071/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Statistics (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of redomiciled public limited companies operating here; and the number that have been established in each of the past ten years. [25968/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Law Issues (29 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 121. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether, following a 1998 report on Irish Registered Non-Resident Companies, changes need to be made to IRNR companies including an activity test for all companies applying for registration that would see a precondition of applying for registration being required to demonstrate that it intends to carry on a business or...