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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Solar Energy Guidelines (28 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how his Department arrived at the estimation (details supplied) as included in his Statement of early May 2023 when he announced the zero VAT rate on the sale of solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (26 Apr 2023)

Gerald Nash: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of warehoused income tax liabilities and VAT liabilities at the end of March 2023; the amount of interest that is projected to accrue over the remainder of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19796/23]

Finance Bill 2023: Financial Resolution (18 Apr 2023)

Gerald Nash: Mrs. Murphy is rarely wrong, in all of our experience. Deputy Healy-Rae is right. The Labour Party supports the setting of a zero VAT rate on solar panels for domestic use, but the measure must not be exploited by the industry to boost its profits at the expense of the consumer. This reduction in VAT needs to be passed on to the consumer by the industry. The Government needs to be...

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...suffering a massive backlash from SMEs the length and breadth of the country. While the Government, to be fair, has identified and acknowledged the error of its ways in relation to TBESS, it has decided to double down on the 9% special VAT rate for the hospitality sector. It decided to extend the rate until the end of August at a time when the industry is benefiting from a post-Covid...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: I agree and in that spirit I will limit my remarks to my amendment on the 9% VAT rate on the hospitality sector, which is being extended yet again. This VAT relief was introduced initially for good reason in 2011, when unemployment in this country was in danger of heading towards 20%. It was a very important measure introduced in 2011 to try to encourage a sector that we believed could...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...and most straightforward thing to do - we should all have a collective understanding of this - if we are to address questions around income adequacy and are determined to address issues around deprivation, is through increases in the core rates of social welfare, which match or beat inflation. The Government decided not to do that and took a different approach. I am attracted to the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a VAT-related matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4042/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...I am not certain what are the current views of the witnesses on that. It is very uncertain and we know that 50% of all of those record receipts from the past year for corporation tax have now overtaken VAT in its significance, extraordinarily, under the tax headings. Does Mr. Coffey agree with the assessment that is being repeated from the Department of Finance, with minimal evidence,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the 9% reduced VAT rate on electricity and gas bills to 31 December 2023; if he will provide costings for extension of the measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3084/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, on her appointment and look forward to working with her. I want to establish with the Minister the cost to the Exchequer of extending the reduced 9% VAT rate on electricity and gas bills, and indeed to establish if this is something the Minister is considering in continuing to support those who are finding it very difficult to make ends meet...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...That will have an extreme impact on those who are less well off and in the bottom income deciles. For the sake of €150 million in the context of a budget surplus, I think the extension of the reduced VAT rate on electricity and gas bills would go some way towards assisting low-income families.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...crisis and inflation is high. One of the perverse things is that when inflation is high and goods and services are more expensive, the Exchequer is laughing all the way to the bank with increased VAT returns. It is important to reflect on that and to pass back as much as possible of that increase, or bonanza, to those who need it most by way of an extension of measures like those that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider revisiting the decision to end the zero VAT rating on antigen testing kits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3086/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...provided for by the subsection.”. At the end of February, the flat rate on gas and electricity bills will go back up to 13.5% from 9%, which is the current rate. On budget night, a resolution was passed to further extend the VAT rate cut to the end of February. We are proposing to extend the VAT rate cut on electricity and gas bills out to the end of 2023. The approximate...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...must be used. I am satisfied that the Minister has committed to reassessing the situation next spring. It is inevitable that it must happen and I would prefer it to happen now. The introduction of an extension to the VAT reduction would give some reassurance and certainty. I await developments over the next number of weeks to see how that evolves.

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ..., when these once-off measures are gone, they are gone. In early January, when the sugar rush wears off, budget 2023 proper will reveal itself to be what I and independent commentators know it to be, a conservative budget. As the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, has said "Compared to indexing tax and welfare policies in line with inflation since 2020, Budget 2023 leaves...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated projected cost of extending the 9% VAT rate on electricity and gas for the remainder of 2023; the estimated cost for the extension in January and February 2023; the estimated additional average cost to a household and a business from the higher VAT rate applying for the remaining ten months in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...No. 2 reads: "In paragraph (1), to delete “be extended until 28 February 2023” and substitute “be extended until 31 December 2023”." The amendment represents a request to extend the VAT cut that was introduced last spring on electricity and gas bills. The Minister has sought to extend it to the end of February but the Labour Party proposes an extension to the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Sep 2022)

Gerald Nash: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans, if any, to reduce the rate of VAT applied on condoms and menstrual cups to 0%; the estimated cost to the Exchequer of reducing the rate on said products to 0%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46208/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (13 Jul 2022)

Gerald Nash: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from raising the VAT rate for the tourism and hospitality sector from 9% to 13.5% in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38660/22]