Results 30,501-30,520 of 36,036 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if the current withholding exemption on royalties was abolished and a 1% withholding tax was applied to outgoing royalties from Irish companies to foreign holding companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25295/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer if withholding tax was applied to dividends paid to treaty countries. [25592/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loan Offers (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out by region/country the percentage amount and individual monetary amounts of finance forwarded by National Assets Management Agency to developers to complete projects in 2012 and to date in 2013. [25296/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or anyone in his Department during this administration or during the previous administration held meetings with representatives of Apple. [25297/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance if any officials from his Department or from the Revenue Commissioners ever met with the tax advisors to Apple; and if any such meetings were facilitated by his Department . [25551/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered a vacant land tax; if he will estimate the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if a vacant land tax was applied in the same way as higher rates 50% are applied to vacant properties to incentivise landlords to use them by Dublin City Council [25375/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos.117, 188, 189, 190, 191 and 192, of 21 May 2013, in which he stated that it would not be appropriate or realistic to specify a timeframe for the savings to be delivered in bankers' pay, if he will provide a timeframe in which he expects the required savings to be delivered from banks, for example, within three months,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to each of the responses received from banks to the Mercer Report, if he will outline the way their proposals would cut total remuneration in each pay grade, and the proportion of proposed cuts in each bank to those earning each of less than €100,000, between €100,000 and €200,000, between €200,000 and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies and the names of same, that are incorporated here but are considered non-resident for tax purposes. [25521/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance if Revenue has ever conducted a report on companies that are incorporated as Irish but are non-resident for tax purposes; if he has ever commissioned the Revenue to conduct a report or if he will do so in the future. [25522/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific piece of legislation and the provision therein which allow companies to establish themselves as incorporated Irish but non-resident; the conditions attached to such incorporation; the date on which the legislation was introduced and put onto the Statute books; if the decision to allow such a legal concept emanated from his Department or if it...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Resident Companies (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of jobs created here by Irish incorporated, non-resident tax companies, directly and indirectly. [25596/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance further to sworn statements given by Apple representatives to the U.S. Senate Committee investigating the company's tax matters, if he can explain the way Apple's taxable income in the State is calculated in such a was as to bring its corporation tax to single digits; and if these methods are applied to other multi national corporations [25525/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance the average statutory and effective tax rate for multi national corporations in the 1980s, 1990s and the 2000s. [25526/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 21 May 2013, if he will confirm the decision process entailed in forwarding £20,000 to the University of Ulster as a contribution towards a study being undertaken there; if the university approached the National Assets Management Agency or NAMA approached the university; if NAMA has a fund established for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has sent any communication, or if he intends to send any communication or officials from his Department or the Revenue Commissioners to the U.S. Senate Committee that undertook a case study on Apple's tax activities, specifically in Ireland, which refute the allegations that Ireland is a tax haven for multi national corporations and that Apple was...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance if he had any communication with the European Commission in relation to the allegations made concerning Ireland's tax treatment of Apple; and if his attention has been drawn to the Commission's examination of the matter, following these allegations. [25553/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Issues (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 21 May 2013, the reason he cannot state that the Central Bank of Ireland is outsourcing the running of its security functions to a private company when any new arrangement regarding the outsourcing, specifically the financial contract with the company, will in all likelihood be included in the CBoI's annual...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Currency Circulation (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of coins of each denomination that have been minted in each year here since the introduction of the Euro. [25659/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Guarantee Scheme Termination (28 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect the ending of the bank guarantee has on the caps on bonuses applying to bankers. [25660/13]