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

Pearse Doherty: I will ask the Minister about some of the detail of the section. Deputy Matthews talked about uninhabitable properties earlier. There are different pieces of legislation regarding the household charge going back to 2011 and the local property tax. However, the definition here is "in use as a dwelling" as opposed to "habitable". The dwelling must be in use for 30 days. I am curious about...

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

Pearse Doherty: I have a couple of other questions. What penalty is applied to people who fail to declare that their property is vacant and therefore do not pay what they are liable to on 1 January 2024? Does that penalty increase each year? If we take somebody whose liability was €500 who did not self-declare in the first year, that person would have an accumulated liability of €1,000 in...

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

Pearse Doherty: How will the €100 apply? Will the Minister explain that to me again?

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

Pearse Doherty: Can the Minister compare the 8% interest charge in respect of somebody who does not declare and pay his or her liability in respect of a vacant house to the non-principal private residence charge, which was on a monthly basis, or the household charge? I think the household charge was set at 8% but I know that when it went over to Revenue it increased.

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

Pearse Doherty: How does the late payment fee compare with the household charge? The late payment fee in respect of the household charge is quite significant, given the length of time that people should have paid it. The late payment fee in respect of the non-principal private residence charge was, I think, charged on the basis of a month.

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

Pearse Doherty: I am looking here at what I imagine is inaccurate information, but the late payment fee for the household charge was 1% per month. I presume that that is more punitive than what the Minister proposes here.

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

Pearse Doherty: Maybe I will phrase my question like this. A number of charges are already applied but these are applied to people who live in their homes. They are actually their homes, as opposed to vacant houses they are just leaving empty. In drafting this legislation, and given the Minister's consideration of this matter and the lengthy time that has passed since he has been thinking about it, did he...

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

Pearse Doherty: It would be helpful if the Minister could provide us with information on somebody with a household charge of €500 or whatever - it was not €500 but €200 at the time - and the penalties that would apply in such a case, and somebody with a charge of €200 for vacancy and how the penalties will apply there. May I ask the Minister about the reach in respect of...

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

Pearse Doherty: What is the reach in respect of the Revenue's ability to charge somebody in Spain, France, Boston, Berlin or wherever else?

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

Pearse Doherty: I am coming to an end on this. The Minister will be familiar with the sight, as he walks through the streets of Dublin, of commercial properties with dwellings, or what once were dwellings, above them lying vacant. In some cases they are a scar on the landscape. Some of them are derelict - not painted, windows boarded up, widows smashed and so on. In a scenario in which there is a...

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

Pearse Doherty: Finally on this, we know that the date of liability is 1 January 2024. When can we expect the first data from the Minister's Department or from Revenue on the number of individuals who have self-assessed for this?

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

Pearse Doherty: The payment is due on 1 January. When will we have our first piece of data on the number of people who have registered or declared that they are liable for this tax? When are we likely to see some information in that regard?

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

Pearse Doherty: From that point, we can look at reports from Revenue. As for the details that will be made available to the Houses of the Oireachtas, will we get not the just numbers and values on the tax that has been collected, but a geographic breakdown as we have had with other taxes? Will that be by county boundaries, or will it include urban and rural settings, for example, where there is more of an...

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

Pearse Doherty: Have resources for Revenue increased to deal with this issue or is it using the existing resources it has been allocated?

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

Pearse Doherty: That is okay. The practice has been that when the Revenue Commissioners requests additional resources for personnel, it has been granted. Am I being assured that this year's ask was also fulfilled in full?

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

Pearse Doherty: Can the Minister provide a note to the committee before Report Stage on that? I am conscious it is not just this tax, which given the fact the Department is only looking for 6,000, it is probably not as resource intense. However, there is work to be done to facilitate the collection of and follow-up on this tax due to the self-declared nature of the tax. In addition, the renters' tax...

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

Pearse Doherty: I want to come in on section 85. Given that we are due to take a break at 5 p.m., I suggest we might do so now in advance of the discussion on section 85.

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

Pearse Doherty: Are there amendments to this section?

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

Pearse Doherty: Is that amendment No. 76?

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

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 79: In page 171, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Report on the Vacant Homes Tax 85.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the vacant homes tax, including an assessment of options to include derelict properties within its scope, to apply a minimum amount of...