Seanad debates
Tuesday, 18 February 2003
Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages.
I welcome the Bill which does nothing in terms of the matters to which I have referred as it is not designed for that purpose. I appreciate that this type of consolidation is a difficult job of work. Those responsible for it in the Department of Finance and the Revenue Commissioners are entitled to our thanks. I am quite sure that tax practitioners, in particular, will be grateful to them. I am aware that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has indicated that he wants to consolidate criminal law, which I also accept will be a difficult task, but that Department appears to have been less successful to date in its endeavours in this regard. It is important that such information as we are dealing with here is kept up to date and available in all possible forms, electronic and otherwise. Since it is a technical and consolidation Bill I have no difficulty with it. I appreciate that the Minister of State has allowed me some time.
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