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Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...are full, and high fuel prices, since late 2021, and certainly since the outbreak of the illegal war Russia is waging on Ukraine, have perversely managed to bolster the public finances through a VAT bonanza. We know that. Consumers are already getting stiffed at the checkout and by profiteering telecoms and energy companies. Although the Minister will say inflation and the cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (16 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the anomaly that sees a VAT exemption applied to the services of psychologists but not to suitably qualified psychotherapists and counsellors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16745/24]

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...schemes and codes of practice to get SMEs paid on time. We also set up the retail forum now chaired by the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, recognising that retail is the single biggest private sector employer, as well as introducing online trading vouchers to get businesses online; placing a real focus on high-potential startups and a renewed and unprecedented focus at the time on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to broaden the tax base in the context of the State's reliance on a small number of tax heads including corporation tax and VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51429/23]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...regarding our excessive reliance on corporation tax revenue, which are correct. We also understand the excessive reliance on the great amount of revenue coming into the Exchequer's coffers through VAT and know about our reliance on income tax from employees in a very small and concentrated number of multinational corporations. Despite this, budget after budget, we see that tax base...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...families and households throughout the country by accepting the Labour Party amendment. Now that I am on my feet, we accept his proposition in regard to the extension of the reduced rate of VAT on energy bills. It would be useful if the Minister would advise the House this evening precisely what the windfall taxes on energy companies will be deployed to do. Written replies to...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: More than 20% of workers are still on low pay, and deprivation rates went up four percentage points after last year's budget. The Government had to follow this up with a mini-budget in February because they got it so wrong this time last year. The Government would not need to spend so much today if they got things right then. Those who are most in need are still paying the price for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Solar Energy Guidelines (28 Jun 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how his Department arrived at the estimation (details supplied) as included in his Statement of early May 2023 when he announced the zero VAT rate on the sale of solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (26 Apr 2023)

Gerald Nash: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of warehoused income tax liabilities and VAT liabilities at the end of March 2023; the amount of interest that is projected to accrue over the remainder of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19796/23]

Finance Bill 2023: Financial Resolution (18 Apr 2023)

Gerald Nash: Mrs. Murphy is rarely wrong, in all of our experience. Deputy Healy-Rae is right. The Labour Party supports the setting of a zero VAT rate on solar panels for domestic use, but the measure must not be exploited by the industry to boost its profits at the expense of the consumer. This reduction in VAT needs to be passed on to the consumer by the industry. The Government needs to be...

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...suffering a massive backlash from SMEs the length and breadth of the country. While the Government, to be fair, has identified and acknowledged the error of its ways in relation to TBESS, it has decided to double down on the 9% special VAT rate for the hospitality sector. It decided to extend the rate until the end of August at a time when the industry is benefiting from a post-Covid...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: I agree and in that spirit I will limit my remarks to my amendment on the 9% VAT rate on the hospitality sector, which is being extended yet again. This VAT relief was introduced initially for good reason in 2011, when unemployment in this country was in danger of heading towards 20%. It was a very important measure introduced in 2011 to try to encourage a sector that we believed could...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...and most straightforward thing to do - we should all have a collective understanding of this - if we are to address questions around income adequacy and are determined to address issues around deprivation, is through increases in the core rates of social welfare, which match or beat inflation. The Government decided not to do that and took a different approach. I am attracted to the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a VAT-related matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4042/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...I am not certain what are the current views of the witnesses on that. It is very uncertain and we know that 50% of all of those record receipts from the past year for corporation tax have now overtaken VAT in its significance, extraordinarily, under the tax headings. Does Mr. Coffey agree with the assessment that is being repeated from the Department of Finance, with minimal evidence,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the 9% reduced VAT rate on electricity and gas bills to 31 December 2023; if he will provide costings for extension of the measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3084/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, on her appointment and look forward to working with her. I want to establish with the Minister the cost to the Exchequer of extending the reduced 9% VAT rate on electricity and gas bills, and indeed to establish if this is something the Minister is considering in continuing to support those who are finding it very difficult to make ends meet...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...That will have an extreme impact on those who are less well off and in the bottom income deciles. For the sake of €150 million in the context of a budget surplus, I think the extension of the reduced VAT rate on electricity and gas bills would go some way towards assisting low-income families.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...crisis and inflation is high. One of the perverse things is that when inflation is high and goods and services are more expensive, the Exchequer is laughing all the way to the bank with increased VAT returns. It is important to reflect on that and to pass back as much as possible of that increase, or bonanza, to those who need it most by way of an extension of measures like those that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider revisiting the decision to end the zero VAT rating on antigen testing kits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3086/23]