Trevor Sargent
Question:71 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Finance if he will give a list of all organisations registered with the CHY number denoting charitable status.
Written Answers. - Tax Exemption for Charities.
I have been informed by the Revenue Commissioners that it will not be possible to furnish the information requested by the Deputy due to the privacy and confidentiality guaranteed to applicants under the Taxpayers' Charter of Rights.
The Revenue Commissioners are not a regulatory body for charities; they deal purely with the granting of tax exemptions to such bodies. The granting of such an exemption by Revenue is considered to be part of the normal tax dealings of the bodies concerned which the body may or may not wish to be in the public domain. I can however confirm that there have been 11,053 applications for charitable status to date and approximately 6,500 cases have received such exemption.