asked the Minister for Finance the amount collected by way of tax on betting at regattas.
Ceisteanna-Questions. Oral Answers. - Betting Tax.
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Statistics are not maintained to show separately the betting duty and turnover tax received in respect of different types of betting, such as on horse racing, greyhound racing and regattas.
I fear the Minister has been misinformed by his Department. There is no connection between the Racing Board and regattas. One goes to revenue and the other goes to the Racing Board and Bord na gCon. In this case as a result of this penal tax imposed on regattas, which compares with the tax imposed on ordinary betting offices, the sport of rowing is practically killed. The Minister must be in a position to know the exact amount the Revenue get out of it and how much it costs to collect it. As a result of this tax——
We cannot have a speech on the matter.
I am trying to educate the Minister.
Before the Deputy attempts to educate me he might pay a little more attention to the question he put down which relates to tax and not to betting levies. The reply relates to the question he put down and is as I have stated.
On tax?
Yes.
And tax is what I want.
And that is the answer the Deputy got.
Tax is a revenue collection; a levy is not.
I agree.
That is what I want.
That is what I have given the Deputy. I said that statistics are not maintained to show separately the betting duty and turnover tax received in respect of the different types of betting, such as horse racing, greyhound racing and regattas.
There is no tax on greyhound racing.
But there is.
No, not on the course.
I agree, not on the course.
I am talking about regattas which are on the course and there is a tax.
The Minister is misinformed.
The Minister is not misinformed.
Question No. 31.