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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, as part of special funding in local government. We have received an information briefing note. Are we agreed to divide the work into two halves? We do not want to mix housing up with roads. Housing is an issue in its own right to be dealt with separately in the afternoon. The work programme is an ongoing item and people can come back on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: Do the universities have separate funds to deal with taxpayer moneys and non-taxpayer moneys?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: SUSI.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will have the NTMA, the State Claims Agency and the HSE in on the same day. The biggest end of the State Claims Agency's work is medical negligence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will do that for the next meeting. We will be back to the work programme next week. Is there any other business?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We will follow that up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Seán Fleming: We can do it later in private session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Today we will resume our consideration of Chapter 20 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report of 2016. The chapter is on corporation tax. It is important that members of the public remember that corporation tax accounted for 15% of total tax receipts in 2016. This tax has displayed considerable volatility in recent years. Some 70% of all corporation tax is paid by the top 100...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: I ask Dr. Keegan to make his opening statement. We will not have any lead speakers. Each member will put questions to Dr. Keegan as we go along.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: I thank Dr. Keegan. We are talking only about corporation tax today. We are not talking about other taxes. Dr. Keegan said no taxes can be modified by the European Union without unanimous agreement. Is he talking about corporation tax specifically?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: With regard to the income tax bands that change every year and the tax credits that are announced in the budget, do they specifically require unanimous agreement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Corporation tax is also sovereign?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: That is okay, I just wanted to check that. Who would like to pose a few questions? The document is now published. We ask people who have an interest in this area to download and read it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Next is Deputy Murphy. I will pose a few questions shortly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: 1 January 2014.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: We will ask Revenue that question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: I want to ask a few questions that relate directly to Dr. Keegan's presentation. I am following his document. Paragraph 1.4 on page 7 addresses trading income versus passive income. Passive income is generally a term for income derived from investment - rental income from property investments - that is subject to a tax of 25%. For a company to access the 12.5% rate of corporation tax on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) Seán Fleming: Give me an example of a grey area.