Results 5,461-5,480 of 8,212 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is recommendation No. 1. We are still on SARP. We have not got to the KEEP programme yet.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: When does the Minister of State anticipate that we might get the 2018 figures?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I oppose the section and I have also tabled recommendations to the section. Section 11 concerns the KEEP scheme. It is the one the Minister of State was preparing to discuss earlier. Section 11 is an extension of the KEEP scheme. My core issue is not with the measures concerning the extension, which relate to part-time, flexible working arrangements, although there is also a question mark...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: As I understand it, people can have up to €100,000 in stocks and shares, and up to 50% of their income come in the form of stocks and shares. This would mean people covered by this could be getting up to €200,000, which is quite a large amount. I would question the small-scale employee. The scheme is designed to be of benefit for those on €200,000, €150,000 or...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: While I agree that people get taxed on their stocks and shares, these people would have been taxed at 40% and are being taxed at a lower rate because it is on stocks and shares at point of exit. That is an overall reduction in our tax and revenue. The aspect of pay later and pay less has been the feature of a number of tax relief measures introduced by the Government over a series of...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Skip the ideological-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Since I have been accused of an ideological-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a single question to move it on.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a single sentence.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: In an earlier contribution I asked the Minister of State a direct question and did not get an answer. It might be useful on this. Does he believe in progressive taxation? Does he believe that the SARP scheme and the KEEP scheme satisfy the principles of progressive taxation?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Since I have been accused of having an ideological position, let us go there.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What is the ideological point on which the Minister of State disagrees with me?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Are the KEEP and SARP schemes progressive?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not ideology; it is a direct question.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am simply asking whether the KEEP scheme and the SARP scheme are progressive taxation measures. That is not ideological. The Minister of State has spoken about progressive taxation.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not an outlier notion.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What was the cost of the scheme?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: So we do not know how much it cost for the 87 individuals who benefited.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What ideology?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: To what element of ideology is the Minister of State referring?