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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is further down the table.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. The amount accounted for by capital allowances and trading losses forward is huge but Mr. Coffey is saying there is even more further down the table. Where is that-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Charges and deductions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Before. The Revenue table is another of my favourite documents. It refers to intragroup transactions, which have jumped astoundingly in the last few years. The latest figure I saw for 2021 was something incredible like €35 billion, and it is describing that as revenue foregone in its list of deductions, reliefs and allowances. That had jumped from €19 billion and before that...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is referred to in the Revenue table as intragroup transactions.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have a bit of that here as well, of course, in certain areas.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that definitely happening in all cases or do we know? Are there still offshore, no tax and low tax locations being utilised for tax avoidance purposes?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would Mr. Coffey say that intellectual property, which is very different from purchasing a machine or a factory, is very vulnerable to games being played by corporations, which have a history, let us be honest, of trying to minimise how much tax they pay?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Have I more time?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On research and development, we have shortages of skills all over the place, for example, in the health service, construction and teaching, and we can go through a long list of places where we do not have people where we need qualified specialist people. Should we be rethinking our way of looking at this? If research and development tax reliefs are currently largely benefiting a small...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point that I absolutely agree with, the commission says we should avoid cliff edges when it comes to welfare. One of the cliff edges that is at the centre of one of the biggest problems in the country at the moment is the fact that if a person is above a social housing income threshold, they get nothing in terms of support to put a roof over their head. If the threshold is now, say,...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chair came up with a good phrase for it. Fair play to her.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Was the vote called just now?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has just been called. If we have time, could someone comment on the question of wealth and the richer getting richer?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In one sense.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (24 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A report was done by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine approximately two years ago which suggested, astonishingly, that Ireland’s forest estate was a net carbon emitter. That was a shocking fact. Why might that be? It was because people who were interested in profit, rather than addressing climate change, biodiversity or, for that matter, supporting rural...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The figure of 11,500 people who are currently homeless is going to continue to swell unless the Government takes urgent emergency measures to stop the flow into homelessness. The major reason the vast majority of those people are homeless is because they have been evicted; the vast majority of whom have done absolutely nothing wrong. Next Friday week, I will be going into court with a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People are being evicted at the moment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have done nothing wrong.