Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 356: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person's (details supplied) tax credit will be amended to include a widow's tax credit; and if he will back-date this person with the allowance to 1999 when they were widowed. [10338/05]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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It is a matter for individual taxpayers to ensure that they claim the relevant tax credits to which they may be entitled. I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the appropriate tax credit for a widowed person has now been granted to the person concerned for the current tax year. Following the granting of the credit for each of the tax years 1999-2000 to 2004 inclusive, overpayments of tax have arisen for each of those years. A refund of these overpayments will issue to the person shortly.