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

Pearse Doherty: As Ms Feehily indicated, Revenue will digest much of the rich data. When such data is available, I presume it is published. However, that may not be the case. If it could be submitted to the committee, that would be most helpful.

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

Pearse Doherty: Read the document.

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

Pearse Doherty: I have a supplementary question. I am not convinced there is a special arrangement for particular companies in the manner reported in the media. Our taxation code has been designed in a way that allows for companies - I am not singling out any particular organisation - to avoid paying tax on profits. They are able to do so in a legal way. It is not that individual companies are being...

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

Pearse Doherty: Considering we are discussing a tax valued at €250 million, I refer to the issue around Apple. The Minister replied to my parliamentary questions. It is shocking that the Revenue does not know how many companies incorporated here are non-resident for tax purposes in this State. I am very concerned about the issues relating to some of Apple's subsidiary companies which have no tax...

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

Pearse Doherty: I do not think the Revenue Commissioners have any role whatsoever in the non-principal private residence, NPPR, tax. Will the Revenue Commissioners share data with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government?

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

Pearse Doherty: The figure for deferrals and exemptions is 3%. The Government estimated that there would be a 15% deferral rate when it announced this tax and assumed an income of €500 million in a full year based on a rate of deferrals of 15%. Based on the calculations presented to this committee by Ms Feehily, with a 97% compliance rate or a 3% deferral rate, the tax would yield an additional...

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

Pearse Doherty: Yes, €70 million - seven zero. The Government suggested a 15% deferral rate but we now know that the rate is only 3%. What could potentially offset that is the return of forms with lower valuations than the Revenue Commissioners' estimate. Does Ms Feehily have any indication as to the percentage of returns with a lower band rating than the one proposed by the Revenue Commissioners?

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

Pearse Doherty: The Revenue Commissioners' figure for exemptions and deferrals is 3%. My understanding is that in the budget book that was presented with the figures for the tax take for this year and next, the 15% figure was based on deferrals only and did not include exemptions.

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

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. The 3% figure presented by Ms Feehily represents both deferrals and exemptions. Is there a breakdown available for that?

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

Pearse Doherty: Ms Feehily said that people who receive a reminder letter and comply within an appropriate period will not be deemed late. If a self-employed person requiring a tax clearance certificate who has missed the deadline set in legislation gets a reminder letter and then complies, will he or she then be deemed to be in compliance with the legislation?

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

Pearse Doherty: If a self-employed person does not comply with the reminder letter and has the tax deducted from his or her bank account, at what point and through what process can that individual become tax compliant?

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]