Written answers

Tuesday, 21 November 2017

  • Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility
    127. To ask the Minister for Finance if people purchasing a second-hand house can be considered under the help-to-buy scheme; if they must pay property tax in the first year in view of the fact...
  • Carbon Tax Yield
    128. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that has been raised by the carbon tax since its introduction; the number of departmental staff who are tasked with enforcement in this...
  • Energy Prices
    129. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department monitors the economic impact of energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49451/17]
  • Stamp Duty
    130. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person is liable to full charge (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48682/17]
  • Financial Services Regulation
    131. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 7 November 2017 and without disclosing any information pertaining to any individual institution, if the Central...
  • Tax Treaties
    132. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to commission a report on the way in which the State's tax policies and treaties affect developing countries; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
    133. To ask the Minister for Finance his views and those of the Central Bank on whether the policy of a bank (details supplied) of charging an extra 1 percentage point interest rate on all...
  • Tax Code
    134. To ask the Minister for Finance the date which the tax on sugar sweetened drinks will commence in April 2018. [48732/17]
  • Carbon Tax Implementation
    135. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of studies that his Department has commissioned or conducted into the impacts of carbon taxes. [48754/17]
  • Brexit Issues
    136. To ask the Minister for Finance the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union on the terms of the UK's...
  • Departmental Staff Training
    137. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and to date in 2017, by cost...
  • Property Tax Exemptions
    138. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce an exemption for old age pensioners for the payment of local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48817/17]
  • Mortgage Interest Relief Data
    139. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the change in mortgage interest relief that reduces the amount of relief on a sliding scale to the year 2021 by 25% per year; his plans to...
  • Departmental Contracts
    140. To ask the Minister for Finance the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from his Department; the income received for each...
  • Banking Sector Regulation
    141. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that the section 110 tax status availed of by qualifying companies operating as non-bank loan originators in the...
  • State Aid Investigations
    142. To ask the Minister for Finance the implications of the European Commission's recent ruling that a company (details supplied) has to pay €250 million to...
  • Money Laundering
    144. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of letters issued in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by banks (details supplied) to political representatives, their families or...
  • Departmental Reports
    146. To ask the Minister for Finance when the report of the working group on the tax and fiscal treatment of rental accommodation providers, expected to be submitted to him in July...
  • Tax Clearance Certificates
    147. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application for a tax clearance certificate by the estate a person (details supplied). [48934/17]
  • Central Bank of Ireland Supervision
    148. To ask the Minister for Finance how the Central Bank regulates the Irish Credit Bureau; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48935/17]
  • Credit Register Administration
    151. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the functions carried out by the Irish Credit Bureau which is owned and run by the financial institutions in the State would better serve...
  • Pension Provisions
    153. To ask the Minister for Finance if the pension being paid to a person (details supplied) is the correct amount; if the tax deductions are correct; and if an examination of the matter will be...
  • Brexit Negotiations
    154. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has raised the issue at EU level of an EU reform fund being established to help countries and regions most exposed to Brexit; and if he will make a...
  • Insurance Costs
    155. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures that have been taken over the past 18 months to reduce the exorbitant cost of insurance on private and commercial vehicles; the further steps...
  • Departmental Communications
    156. To ask the Minister for Finance the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [49062/17]
  • Tax Code
    157. To ask the Minister for Finance the annualised interest rate applied on late payment and filing of P30 returns; the equivalent rate of interest applied in the UK and in other EU and OECD...
  • Parliamentary Questions Costs
    159. To ask the Minister for Finance the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49124/17]
  • Paradise Papers.
    160. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to deal with those revealed to be involved in the Paradise Papers, particularly with regard to construction companies which continue to trade; and...
  • Tax Reliefs Application
    161. To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax relief for student fees paid outside the EU for one year of study exists in the case of a person who has lived and worked in Ireland in the years...
  • Help-To-Buy Scheme Administration
    162. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) concerning the help-to-buy scheme. [49267/17]
  • Tax Reliefs Data
    163. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons claiming tax relief on third level tuition fees; the cost of the relief for each complete tax year since 2010, in tabular form; and if...
  • Help-To-Buy Scheme Data
    164. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications that have been received under the help-to-buy scheme to date in 2017; the number of these applications that have been processed;...
  • Tax Code
    165. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in circumstances when the payment of inheritance tax becomes due by a person living here who is benefitting from an inheritance in respect of the...
  • Tax Avoidance
    166. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of his planned anti-avoidance measures to deal with the avoidance of stamp duty on the purchase of commercial property through buying...
  • Real Estate Investment Trusts
    167. To ask the Minister for Finance if costs (details supplied) are deductible for REITs when computing their annual property income in view of the fact that one of the qualifying criteria...

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