Written answers
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
- Tax Exemptions
168. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take in view of the ECJ order that the refund of excise duty on fuel used by disabled drivers is unlawful and in breach of the excise... - Tax Code
169. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there continues to be a death tax on intestate wills; and if he has any plans to change same. [22472/13] - Property Taxation Exemptions
170. To ask the Minister for Finance the length of time for which the current list of unfinished housing estates will qualify for a wavier from the local property tax; and if he will make a... - Tax Exemptions
171. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any proposals to review the current qualifying criteria in respect of primary medical certificates; if his Department will consider revising the... - Property Taxation Exemptions
172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of persons liable for the local property tax that are not required to pay the 2013 tax until 2014; and if he will make a statement... - Property Tax Assessments
173. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons that identical houses in private estates may have different values attributed to them for the local property tax in situations where the local... - Tax Code
174. To ask the Minister for Finance the situation regarding the capital gains tax payable by a landowner who transfers a site to a relation for no consideration; the liability that attaches to... - Property Tax Assessments
175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the rationale behind the valuation bands of the local property tax; if consideration was given to introducing more gradual bands than... - Property Taxation Administration
176. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by householders who have not received their local property tax return form and who do... - Income Statistics
177. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 2 May 2013, if he will set out the incomes and income tax distributions in a format matching the income bands in a... - Pension Provisions
178. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the publication of the Mercer Report and his recommendations to the covered institutions that they reduce their cost base by between 6% and 10%, if... - Banking Sector Issues
179. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding an increase in EBS mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22250/13] - Tax Clearance Certificates
180. To ask the Minister for Finance if State bodies, State agencies and public bodies should be required to get a tax clearance certificate ffrom persons who purchase assets from them to ensure... - Property Taxation Exemptions
181. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to apply for a full or partial exemption or waiver in respect of a private residence that has had works carried out to the property to adapt... - International Financial Services Centre
182. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of banks and businesses that have closed in the International Financial Services Centre over the past three years; the names of the banks; the... - Tax Yield
183. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers earning more than €100,000 per annum; the amount of tax they pay; the percentage this is of the total tax take; and if he will... - Marked Gas Oil
184. To ask the Minister for Finance if operators are permitted to use marked gas oil rebated fuel in agricultural tractor and trailer combinations used for the general carriage of goods by road... - Pension Schemes
185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene with the Permanent TSB in order to ensure that workers' pension benefits are protected under the defined benefit scheme and to ensure... - Property Taxation Collection
186. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person who signed up online to pay the local property tax by direct debit has had the payment debited already when the forms indicate that the... - Budget 2014 Issues
188. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum adjustment that would be required to be made in Budget 2014 to meet the original agreed deficit target as set out in the Troika Programme. [22364/13] - Bank Debt Restructuring
189. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten persons, commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the number of persons that continue to have outstanding... - IBRC Liquidation
193. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation borrowers will be eligible to buy their own loans at less than par value when such loans over €10m are... - NAMA Expenditure
194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the sums paid by the National Asset Management Agency to each of the ratings agencies Fitch, Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s and... - Financial Services Sector Remuneration
195. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 208 and 210 of 23 April 2013, if he will confirm by year, separately, the salary and benefits and total remuneration... - Banking Sector Issues
196. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 1 May 2013, if the increase in the State’s shareholding of the ordinary shares in Allied Irish Banks as a... - Banks Recapitalisation
197. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has not been obliged to make an offer for all outstanding shares in Allied Irish Banks and Permanent TSB in view of his shareholding in both... - Banking Licence Applications
198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm by year for each of end of 2010, end of 2011, end of 2012 and currently, the number of extant banking licences issued to banks operating in... - Central Bank of Ireland Issues
199. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the Central Bank of Ireland is considering outsourcing security for the bank's operations; if all security operations, or specific... - Tobacco Control Measures
200. To ask the Minister for Finance the payments that have been made by tobacco manufacturers in each of the past five years for breaches of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Revenue... - Property Taxation Administration
201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate the reason persons who had registered and paid the household charge did not receive their local property tax return forms; and if he... - Property Taxation Application
202. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a person's liability for the local property tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22438/13] - Property Taxation Collection
203. To ask the Minister for Finance if statistics from the local property tax collected by the Revenue Commissioners will be made available for academic purposes such as geographers and... - Departmental Funding
204. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any proposal to partly fund the Poolbeg Incinerator project through loans from the National Pension Reserve Fund; and if he... - Tax Exemptions
205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will advise on the attached (details supplied) regarding capital gains tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22698/13] - Property Valuations
206. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the continuing problems faced by home-owners in fairly valuing their properties for the purposes of the local property tax... - IBRC Liquidation
207. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the taxpayer of the recent sale of the Quinn Building, Johnstown, Navan, to Meath County Council. [22704/13] - Property Taxation Collection
208. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of registrations for the local property tax on a local authority basis. [22712/13] - Tax Exemptions
209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all organisations here which are granted charitable tax exemption; if he will list all such organisations which had charitable... - Mobile Telephony
210. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has allocated funding from the sale of the mobile spectrum in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20196/13] - Tax Reliefs Application
212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of student accommodation that was built under section 50 of the Finance Act 1999. [22749/13] - Mortgage Interest Rates Issues
213. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for Allied Irish Bank and other such banks to either pass on the ECB rate cuts to variable rate mortgage holders or refrain from increasing mortgage... - Public Sector Staff Remuneration
214. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of the following earnings... - Illicit Trade in Tobacco
215. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps the Revenue Commissioners are taking to monitor fairs, markets and so on in order to crackdown on the illegal sale of cigarettes and tobacco... - Tax Yield
216. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual value of income tax paid by employees of multinational companies that have invested here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22818/13] - Property Taxation Exemptions
217. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any exemption on the property tax for persons who bought their homes in 2008 and paid huge stamp duty, and for those whose property has had... - Departmental Expenditure
218. To ask the Minister for Finance the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative to his office and the... - Banking Sector Issues
220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details, for each of the covered institutions, the number of rent receivers appointed to date in 2013 in respect of buy to let properties;... - Banking Operations
221. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding Bank of Ireland not issuing bankers' drafts of less than €500 in view of the fact that this is an issue with senior citizens; and... - Property Taxation Application
222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the position regarding houses that were exempt from the household charge in 2012 by county councils as these homes were subject to...
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