Results 161-180 of 406 for speaker:Charlie McCreevy

Written Answers — Departmental Travel: Departmental Travel (3 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: The amount paid out from my Department's Vote in 2003 in respect of car mileage expenses was €94,945.01. The amount paid out in the period 1 May to 31 December 2003 in respect of rail and bus ticket expenses was €3,507.36. In the time available, it would not be possible to provide the detailed rail and bus ticket expenses figure for the first four months of 2003, because this information...

Written Answers — Disabled Drivers: Disabled Drivers (10 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: As I have indicated in replies to previous questions on this issue, the interdepartmental report of the review group on the disabled drivers and disabled passengers — tax concessions — scheme is under consideration in my Department. The report is a substantive one and needs to be studied carefully. Any recommendations contained in this report will receive full consideration. On completion...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that a relevant contracts tax deduction certificate or RCTDC form in respect of the taxpayer, which covered RCT withheld during the period August to October 2003, was received by the Revenue Commissioners on 17 November 2003. A covering letter from the taxpayer's tax adviser requested Revenue not to repay the relevant credit but to retain it instead...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that claims to repayment of RCT arise where a sub-contractor does not present a C2 certificate to a principal contractor when they are being paid for work which they have undertaken on a contract. In these circumstances, the principal contractor is obliged to withhold 35% RCT from such payments and to pay it over to Revenue. A C2 certificate can be...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: What constitutes grave professional misconduct can only be assessed having regard to the circumstances of each particular case. Ultimately such matters may have to be determined by the courts.

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: Telecommunications services were made liable for VAT for the first time at the rate of 10% on 1 January 1991. The rate was subsequently increased to 12.5% in March 1991 and to 16% in March 1992. Telecommunications services remained at this rate until 1 March 1993, when in the context of the general restructuring of the VAT rates to take account of the requirements of the EU Single Market and...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (10 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: The amounts set out below were spent on media advertising by my Department for the years 2002 and 2003. The breakdown between categories has been estimated in some cases. 2002 2003 € € National press 55,125 55,924.22 Local press 5,603 6,886.79 National radio 7,626 nil Local radio 1,907 nil Training video 219.14 nil Other* 46,927...

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: I am very pleased to be here this evening to address this motion on decentralisation. The issue has been of considerable interest to Members of the House and I have participated in a number of Adjournment debates on the issue in the Seanad over the past few years. Since I initially announced the Government's decision to proceed with a new programme of decentralisation in December 1999, the...

Seanad: Regional Development: Motion. (11 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: This programme is, as much as anything else, about the promotion of balanced regional development. Why should those towns which have not been identified as hubs or gateways not share in that development? Do they not also have a convincing case for further prosperity? These questions, I suggest, answer themselves. This programme is a statement of the Government's confidence in provincial...

Non-Resident Accounts. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that it has not been possible in any cases examined to date to obtain the evidence necessary to meet the required standard of "beyond reasonable doubt" in amnesty non-compliance offences. It is generally the case also that where a taxpayer agrees to co-operate in an investigation and Revenue cannot otherwise access relevant evidence, the taxpayer's...

Non-Resident Accounts. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: As I explained in my reply, the level of proof required to obtain a successful conviction under section 9 of the amnesty is evidence beyond reasonable doubt. It has not proved feasible to hear evidence of the standard required to obtain such a conviction. The burden of proof in criminal cases is of the highest standard, that is, beyond reasonable doubt. As regards other aspects of offences...

Decentralisation Programme. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: I have not undertaken a survey of civil servants or public servants to ascertain the numbers who wish to transfer to each of the locations included in the decentralisation programme. Conducting such a survey in advance of clearer time lines for the sequencing of all the various moves would be of limited value. The decentralisation programme will operate on a voluntary basis. Civil and public...

Decentralisation Programme. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: The time line to complete this programme is 31 December 2006 and I hope that will be met. We chose that date to put pressure on Ministers and Departments to ensure it is done before a certain event occurs in the summer of 2007. I make no apologies for saying that, it will put pressure on Ministers and politicians to ensure it is delivered. I am aware of newspaper speculation about some...

Decentralisation Programme. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: Along with other Ministers, I have repeatedly said this is a voluntary programme. Given that and with the wide decentralisation, it will be possible to meet most people's requirements. Under this programme, full Departments are moving to provincial locations. The map of Ireland after decentralisation will show large clusters of public and civil servants in various regions. It will therefore...

Tax Code. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: Section 13 of Finance Act 2002 provides that the transfer and appropriation of securities other than ordinary shares to the beneficiaries of an employee share ownership trust, ESOT, or approved profit sharing scheme, APSS, in the circumstances of certain takeovers may take place in a manner which preserves the tax benefits to the participants. The point at which income tax is forgone is when...

Tax Code. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: Every Finance Act since 1997 has included some changes to employee share ownership plans, all of which have been done at the request of the ESOTs which comprise the workers involved and their representatives. Even this year's Finance Bill contains a change to ESOP legislation to accommodate the employees of the former Irish National Petroleum Corporation. The change did not have the effect of...

Tax Code. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: On Committee Stage, that was done at the request of the former Deputy and now Senator Derek McDowell. It was done to explain the intricacies of the provision and specifically to explain that the matter was the subject of a request under the Freedom of Information Act, which had been appealed. The Deputy can ask Senator McDowell and others who were present to outline what I said about the...

Tax Code. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: This change was made to benefit the employees represented by the ESOT, and all the changes that have been made to legislation affecting ESOTs through the years since Deputy Quinn first introduced ESOT legislation in the Finance Act 1997 have all been done at the request of the workers to preserve the tax benefits for them alone. Nobody from Valentia or the other consortium made any contact...

Tax Code. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: As the Deputy will be aware, following my Budget Statement regarding carbon energy taxation last December, I published a carbon energy tax consultation paper prepared by my Department on 31 July last year. This consultation paper was designed to facilitate discussions on the introduction and design of the carbon energy tax while recognising that there are divergent views on the issue....

Tax Code. (17 Feb 2004)

Charlie McCreevy: The allocation of quotas for emissions trading is a matter for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen. On 5 February this year the Minister made announcements in this regard. It was envisaged in the consultation paper that those covered by emissions trading would not also be subject to the carbon energy tax.