Written answers

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

  • Credit Review Office Remit
    181. To ask the Minister for Finance if the credit review office limit of appeals could be raised from €500k to €3m in order to better assist small and medium enterprises...
  • Fuel Laundering
    182. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to have the sale of washed diesel stopped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30641/13]
  • Tax Code
    183. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to take further steps on the treatment of private pensions, specifically with regards to the way they are taxed, for example, if he will look...
  • Tobacco Smuggling
    184. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of successful prosecutions that have been made for the supply of illegally obtained cigarettes and tobacco; the average length of sentence or fine...
  • IBRC Account Holders
    186. To ask the Minister for Finance the way persons who have business loans and mortgages with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in liquidation which are performing will be accommodated in...
  • Universal Social Charge Yield
    187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the yield or estimated yield from increasing the basic 7% universal social charge to 8%, 9%, 10% and 11%; and if he will...
  • Tax Reliefs Availability
    188. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in order that patients are allowed to claim reimbursement in respect of physiotherapy expenses when they...
  • VAT Rates Application
    189. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the case of a shopkeeper in County Donegal from whom Revenue has demanded a tax payment in respect of the sale of Mass...
  • Tax Code
    190. To ask the Minister for Finance if the agricultural relief available to farmers to assist them in passing their farms to relatives in order to maintain a working farm within the family unit...
  • Property Taxation Data
    191. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the details of those who registered with the local property tax to include the numbers of persons who registered; if these...
  • NAMA Loan Book
    193. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown in geographical terms by region/country, percentage and value of the properties underlying the National Assets Management...
  • Tax Collection
    194. To ask the Minister for Finance the names of the top ten companies managed by the Revenue's Large Cases Division. [30250/13]
  • EU Funding
    195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline Ireland's financial contribution to the EU for the past ten years. [30251/13]
  • Tax Code
    196. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding tax liability in respect of persons entering farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30264/13]
  • Company Registration
    197. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies his Department and the Revenue are aware of that are incorporated here but are non-tax resident anywhere in the world. [30290/13]
  • Tax Code
    198. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the entry point for the 41% marginal rate of tax from its current level to the following respective categories,...
  • Financial Services Ombudsman Issues
    199. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to introduce a change to the legislation whereby consumers currently have six years from the date they purchased a financial product to submit a...
  • European Banking Sector
    200. To ask the Minister for Finance if officials in his Department or the Central Bank of Ireland have been in consultation with the European Central Bank regarding a programme to provide cheap...
  • Tax Avoidance Issues
    201. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 18 June 2013, the mandate given to the official of the Revenue Commissioners appointed to sit on the EU's tax...
  • Topical Issue Debate
    202. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011; the number of topical...
  • Betting Regulations
    203. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax income expected to be generated from the proposed legislative changes to the betting industry. [30359/13]
  • European Council Meetings
    204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the parameters of the discussions held with Ministerial colleagues at the 3248th ECOFIN Council meeting in Luxembourg on 21 June 2013; if...
  • NAMA Staff Issues
    205. To ask the Minister for Finance if any staff have left the National Assets Management Agency since January 2013 to date; and the number of those staff that have moved into private sector...
  • NAMA Property Sales
    206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the decision by the National Assets Management Agency to release two Dublin hotels for sale in 2013 after a previous statement of intent to...
  • NAMA Court Cases
    207. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases in which the National Assets Management Agency is involved in the commercial courts. [30476/13]
  • NAMA Operations
    208. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the National Assets Management Agency has decided to recently issue a tender for a business procurement support services when the National Treasury...
  • NAMA Debtors
    209. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of the the National Assets Management Agency developers who have applied for bankruptcy in Britain since the beginning of 2013. [30478/13]
  • Bank Stress Tests
    210. To ask the Minister for Finance the person that will conduct the stress testing of Irish banks to begin at the end of this year and conclude in the first half of 2014. [30479/13]
  • IBRC Liquidation
    211. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects unsold loans at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to be transferred to the National Assets Management Agency; and if the expected date of...
  • Tax Code
    213. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the entry point to the 41% marginal tax rate for married couples with one earner to each of the respective amounts:...
  • National Debt
    214. To ask the Minister for Finance the potential savings that would be made in debt servicing if €10 billion of the current cash holdings in the National Treasury Management Agency was...
  • Ministerial Transport
    215. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and if he will...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    216. To ask the Minister for Finance the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30569/13]
  • Mortgage Interest Relief Statistics
    218. To ask the Minister for Finance if statistics are collected on the breakdown of mortgage interest relief in accordance with the recipient's mortgage type; and if so, if he will provide the...
  • Tax Reliefs Application
    223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a break down of the €250 million in carry-over for 2014 due to changes to the tax treatment of pensions; the way these changes would...
  • Tax Exemptions
    224. To ask the Minister for Finance the logic behind exempting savings bonds from DIRT and the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer if DIRT was applied to the bonds, both at the...
  • Tax Yield
    225. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer if DIRT was raised by the following; 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%. [30648/13]
  • Tax Code
    226. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the proposal to introduce a fizzy drink tax and if so, the amount of revenue such a tax has the potential to raise. [30649/13]
  • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
    227. To ask the Minister for Finance following a submission by the Revenue Commissioners to the Comprehensive Expenditure Review, which set out that increased audit activity could raise in the...
  • Banking Sector Issues
    228. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the decision by Irish banks not to implement the Business to Business aspect of SEPA for February 2014; if he has discussed the implications of...

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