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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: Was this amendment already discussed?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)
Pearse Doherty: I will discuss it when we come to the section again.
- 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. 76: In page 93, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Report on the application of capital gains tax to all sales of property by REITs and IREFs 39.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the application the full rate of capital gains tax of 33 per cent to all...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, I am.
- 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. 77: In page 93, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Report on the introduction of a higher rate of capital gains tax on high-income individuals 39.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the introduction of a 40 per cent rate of capital gains tax on the disposal...
- 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?