asked the Minister for Finance the reason £12.80 is being stopped every two weeks from the county council pension of £56.00 of a person (details supplied) in County Meath.
Written Answers. - Meath Pension.
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I have been advised by the Revenue Commissioners that, in addition to a retirement pension, the taxpayer is also in receipt of a social welfare old age pension. Both pensions are chargeable to income tax. In accordance with practice, the taxpayer's tax-free allowances are set off, in the first instance, against the social welfare pension to enable it to be paid without deduction of income tax. The balance of the allowances are made available against the retirement pension.
On the basis of information supplied to the inspector of taxes, when the taxpayer called to the tax office recently, an amended certificate of tax-free allowances for the current year was issued to the taxpayer on 29 June 1983.
Any tax overdeducted from the retirement pension since 6 April 1983 is refundable by the taxpayer's former employer on operation of that certificate.