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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: There is a specific proposal within this amendment that is worthy of merit. The Minister has not said that this idea would be subject to the tax strategy group paper's, work that will be ongoing this summer. I believe it should. I take the Minister's point on estimates. We can only go on what the Department has provided to us. There is a significant yield from this measure. Is the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 78: In page 93, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Report on the treatment of capital gains tax with respect to worker-owned cooperatives 39.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the treatment of capital gains tax in instances where a company or shares of a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: There is a bit of trend here in that nothing has happened in this area for 130 years and then when Sinn Féin produces a Bill the Government undertakes to produce one of its own and to also do something on the taxation end as well. Deputy Mairéad Farrell's Bill on lobbying kick-started the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, to produce a Bill in that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Unfortunately, I was 60 seconds too late to move amendment No. 88, and the amendment relating to vehicle registration tax, VRT, changes has also been disposed of. I would have liked to have heard from the Minister on the vehicles to which this would apply.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: We are on section 47? Sorry.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Sorry - I am getting my sections and my amendments mixed up.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, exactly.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I was speaking on my amendment. The Minister just ignored everything I said, and that he has calculated €9.5 billion into carbon taxes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Either there is a hole in the financing of the national development plan or the numbers are wrong. I want to make another point. I was on local radio this morning, not my local radio but Shannonside, on this matter which I have raised with the Minister's Government colleagues for the last month. The number 30 bus which provides connection between Donegal and Dublin, particularly the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: No, they will think of the Minister.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: No, they will ask why the Minister did not provide the buses for them.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: No, I ask the Minister to provide an alternative.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: How will the operation of section 48 be applied to VAT groups?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Section 50 concerns the cancellation of deposits and is obviously consistent with the recent case law produced by the European Court of Justice, which determined that deposits received from a customer for supplies that have not taken place are subject to VAT. I ask the Minister to clarify, by way of example, to whom the VAT charge will apply.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 92: In page 120, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Report on the VAT treatment of domestic energy bills 54. The Minister shall, within one month of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the VAT treatment of domestic energy bills and options regarding the effective removal of VAT on domestic energy...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to make a short point on amendment No. 92. As the Minister pointed out, the amendment was not included in the alternative budget, and asked why that is the case. I think he should be afforded an opportunity to hear why it was not in our alternative budget. Indeed, he is the reason for it. The Minister informed us, through a reply to a parliamentary question, that it would not be...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Sorry, that is completely and utterly untrue. I ask the Minister to clarify if it is possible to provide a VAT refund under the Commission's toolbox that was published on 13 October. As the Minister knows, and has acknowledged, at least one finance minister has engaged with the Commission on zero-rating VAT temporarily.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: First of all, the Revenue Commissioners have already run rebates, so it can be done. That is not the issue; the issue is that the toolbox that was published by the Commission on 13 October allows for rebates in relation to energy. That is a tool that is available to the Minister. He said it cannot be done, yet, he acknowledges that the Czech Republic's finance minister is engaged with the...