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

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that, as information on income is not required on Local Property Tax returns, it is not possible to provide an accurate estimate of the impact of an additional charge on second or more properties linked to income. The Deputy may wish to note that the yield in respect of second and multiple properties is published at:...

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

Paschal Donohoe: Following clarification with the Deputy's office, I understand the question relates to the estimated additional revenue that would be raised from introducing a non-principal private residence charge. I am advised by Revenue that the estimated additional revenue which would be raised from an annual contribution charge of €200 or €500 respectively per non-principal private...

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

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182 and 183 together. Ireland’s corporate tax regime has been built on certainty and predictability, and the 12.5% corporation tax rate on trading income has been a cornerstone of that regime for almost 20 years. This stability has enabled companies to plan long-term investments in Ireland, generating employment and increasing economic activity. ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rights of People with Disabilities (13 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: At the present time, my Department’s offices are not publicly accessible, and therefore do not provide access to such facilities. However, I fully support the drive to providing fully accessible changing places and toilet facilities to people with disabilities and their carers. Such a network of equipped spaces will allow them to take care of personal hygiene, in a safe, comfortable...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rights of People with Disabilities (13 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: My Department actively engages with a range of stakeholders in the delivery of its objectives including representatives from the community and voluntary sector and from groups representing people with disabilities, and regularly reviews and refreshes its stakeholder engagement structures to ensure there is a broad level of engagement across sectors. An example of this is the National...

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

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy has noted, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has established an independent Working Group to examine the issue of defective housing. Officials from my Department participate on this Working Group. The objectives of the group are to identify the scope of relevant significant defects in housing, to evaluate the scale of housing affected, to propose a means...

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

Paschal Donohoe: As indicated in the Budget speech of 12 October 2021, it is planned to bring forward legislative provisions in Finance Bill 2022 to introduce a 50% excise relief to micro producers of cider. However, as Article 13a of the relevant EU legislation (2020/1151) is structured differently to what is already permitted for small beer producers (under Article 4), the existing relief in Irish...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: What are the Deputy's plans?

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I missed that.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: As a Government, we acknowledge there is much to do. We acknowledge there is much progress that we need to make in the rest of our mandate. However, in putting forward the motion, we also make the case for what we have achieved and delivered during two years of unprecedented challenge. Our country faced record levels of unemployment at a time when the world was grappling with a...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I listened carefully to what Deputy McDonald had to say. She talked about the need to change. In the 15 minutes afforded to her, she proposed one solution. What was that solution?

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: It was tax credit. Anyone in this country looking for change and radical reform will not find it in the speech delivered by Deputy McDonald. What was also conspicuously lacking in that speech was what was not mentioned. There was no mention of Covid, the war in Ukraine, the economy and the value of jobs, and, shamefully, Brexit. That kind of approach might work when leading an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to advise the Deputy that NAMA does not own properties, rather NAMA owns loans for which the properties act as security. The properties are owned and controlled by their registered owners, or appointed receivers in the event of enforcement. The Receiver is an agent of the debtor, not NAMA. The referenced property is a private residential development consisting of a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that Carbon Tax receipts by commodity for the years 2010 to 2020 are published on the Revenue website at the following link: www.revenue.ie/en/corporate/information-about-revenue/statis tics/excise/receipts-volume-and-price/excise-receipts-commod ity.aspx. I am further advised that the amounts raised through the Carbon Tax in 2021 and provisionally to the end of June...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 306, 309 and 319 together. The Disabled Drivers & Disabled Passengers Scheme provides relief from Vehicle Registration Tax and VAT on the purchase and use of an adapted car, as well as an exemption from motor tax and an annual fuel grant. The Scheme is open to severely and permanently disabled persons as a driver or as a passenger and also to certain...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Section 481 provides relief in the form of a corporation tax credit related to the cost of production of certain films. The scheme is intended to act as a stimulus to the creation of an indigenous film industry in the State, creating quality employment opportunities and supporting the expression of the Irish culture. Finance Act 2018 introduced a short-term, tapered regional uplift for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Addressing vacancy and dereliction, and maximising the use of the existing housing stock, is a priority objective of the Government. Housing for All includes a specific action for the Department of Finance to collect data on vacancy with a view to introducing a vacant property tax. Provisions included in the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Act 2021 enabled Revenue to collect certain...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I am informed by Revenue that the home carer tax credit can be claimed by couples who are married or in a civil partnership and have elected to be jointly assessed to tax, where either spouse or civil partner, the ‘home carer’, cares for one or more dependent persons. A dependent person includes an individual who, at any time in the year of assessment, is: - a child in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: The Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Scheme provides relief from VAT and VRT (up to a certain limit) set against the purchase and use of an adapted car, and for transport of a person with specific severe and permanent physical disabilities. The Scheme also provides payment of a Fuel Grant, and an exemption from Motor Tax. Certain other qualifying criteria apply in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Jul 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 312 and 313 together. As the Deputy will be aware, it is a long-standing practice of the Minister for Finance not to comment, in advance of the Budget, on any tax matters that might be the subject of Budget decisions. However, the Deputy should note that section 7 of Annex III of the VAT Directive provides that the reduced rate of VAT may be applied by...