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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I suspect, for most of these, the company believes they are doing what is right, the Revenue or Tax Appeals Commission has a different opinion and there is legal interpretation. Maybe the Comptroller and Auditor General might-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will ask how many of them are based on interpretation of legislation, rather than mistakes. If they can identify the sector, then well and good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It could be property, pharma or IT. We do not know the sector but it would be interesting to start to see that. What I can say about the trends, the amounts outstanding in the Tax Appeals Commission, only about two years ago it was just over €1 billion, between €1.3 billion and €1.6 billion, and it jumped to €3 billion very quickly. There is a handful of massive...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. I think they said they do not know. They have no information on the enforcement procedures in the other EU countries. They do not know. It is something that the Irish Road Haulage Association can take up through its European associates. There must be associations at an EU level for road haulage because I am sure there are issues that are not just specific to Ireland. Perhaps that is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Under which Department's aegis is the Valuation Office?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Murphy mentioned car parking. People pay to park on a main street but not if they are in a shopping centre. That is a simple question. If anyone here has the answer, I ask them to tell me what it is. Are rates charged on car parks outside-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask for a note on that. Some of the major multiples have large car parking spaces. That is not free; they pay to build car parks in order to attract customers but customers do not have to pay for parking while they are there. I suspect that must be included in the rateable part of the property.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I suspect it should be. It would be crazy if it was not because it is part of the commercial premises. . Deputy Catherine Murphy:I am using it as an example. How is it modelled? I may be wrong in my description. If people understand the process, it is much easier to accept a revaluation. There is an absence of that type of information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will send the office a copy of the transcript of what was said here and ask for the modelling in respect of shops in town centres compared to shops on the outskirts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: How it is dealt with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We want to know if the part of a premises closest to the main street gets a higher valuation than the area further back. We will ask for a note on the matrix used, or whatever the appropriate word is. It would be useful for people to have that information. The next item of correspondence is No. 2325 from Derek Moran, Secretary General of the Department of Finance, providing an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes, exactly. From our perspective, the matter is now closed. We will send on the correspondence. We will note and publish that. The next item is No. 2327, from Paul Quinn, chief procurement officer, Office of Government Procurement, dated 18 July, providing a note requested by the committee regarding the Construction Contracts Act. This relates to a request for clarification in regard...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was not far off. I am a bit rusty after the summer. That is the difference. When different terms are used, people get confused.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. There are three terms, that is, gross national debt, which is principally the Government general gross debt-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: General Government debt includes the debt of central and local government.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Please make sure the wording in it is clearer than this letter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: The sentence in that letter does not read well. It states that gross national debt is the principal component of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: -----general Government debt. However, "it"-----