Written answers

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

9:00 pm

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 237: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 291 and 294 of 27 January 2009, the arrangements which exist to cease the deduction of the 1% income levy on the pay and pensions of people over 65 years who have a medical card and others who have a medical card and when it is possible for the Revenue Commissioners to confirm that the person would have an entitlement to an exemption from the levy for the full year. [4661/09]

Photo of Brian Lenihan JnrBrian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Where the individual has an entitlement to a full medical card at any time during the year the individual should forward a copy of their full medical card to their employer/pension provider and the employer/pension provider will then cease to deduct the income levy. Where the income levy has been applied for particular pay period(s) during the year and the individual has an entitlement to a full medical card, then they will be due a refund of any income levy paid in the year. In this situation, the employer/pension provider should make an adjustment at year's end and refund all income levy deducted during the year.

Where the employee has not been in continuous employment with an employer or in receipt of a pension from a pension provider throughout the year in question, the Revenue Commissioners, rather than the employer/pension provider, will make any refund of income levy due on a claim being made.

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 238: To ask the Minister for Finance the input the proposed new pension levy on public sector incomes will have on the cost of buying back years of service for persons who will not have full service upon reaching the age of 65 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4663/09]

Photo of Brian Lenihan JnrBrian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The scheme for the purchase of notional service allows officers who would have less than maximum pensionable service at age 60 or 65 and who fulfil certain other conditions to purchase additional reckonable service at full actuarial cost. The pension deduction will have no effect on the purchase of notional service now or in the future.

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