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Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Tax Data
Ged Nash
139. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the tax reliefs exempted from the high-income individual restriction; the estimated additional yield if those reliefs were not exempted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38639/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
140. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional yield to the Exchequer from applying a higher rate of local property tax of 0.25% or 0.2875% to properties valued over €750,001, from increasing the higher rate of the tax to 0.3% on the balance of properties valued over €1.05 million and .4% per cent on the balance of properties valued over €1.75 million in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38643/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
141. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional yield to the Exchequer from applying a higher rate of local property tax of 0.25 % or 0.2875 % on the balance of properties valued over €750,001 and €1 million, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38644/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
142. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated total savings to the Exchequer from applying only the standard rate of tax to all discretionary tax expenditures costing in excess of €5 million in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38645/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
143. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated savings to the Exchequer by abolishing the current tax-free lump sum that can be withdrawn from a pension pot upon retirement, by reducing the current tax-free lump sum that can be withdrawn from a pension pot upon retirement from €200,000 to €100,000 or €50,000 respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38648/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
144. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield to the Exchequer by reducing the standard fund threshold from €2 million to €1 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38649/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
145. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from abolishing the primary private residence relief from capital gains tax from capping the primary private residence relief from capital gains tax at €1 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38650/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
146. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from abolishing entrepreneurs' relief as provided under section 597AA of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38651/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
147. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from abolishing the capital gains tax retirement relief from reducing the limit that currently applies to that stated relief on disposals or transfers to children or certain other close relations if made after the age of 66 years from €3 million to €1 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38652/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
148. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from capital gains tax retirement relief from applying a limit of €3m or €1m respectively to disposals or transfers to children or certain other close relations between the ages of 55 and 66; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38653/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
149. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from abolishing capital gains tax relief that is given to property acquired between 7 December 2011 and 31 December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38654/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
150. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from reducing the scale of agriculture and business capital gains tax relief respectively from 90% to 50% of the taxable value of the relevant assets and capping the relief at €3 million. [38655/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
151. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated saving to the Exchequer that would accrue from abolishing the help to buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38656/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
152. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from removing the PAYE and earned income tax credits which reduce final income tax liabilities from taxpayers with incomes above €100,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38657/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
153. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the yield to the Exchequer from capital gains tax for the previous three years; the estimated yield to the Exchequer from reducing the CAT class A threshold to €250,000, the class B threshold to €25,000 and reducing the class C threshold to €13,000 at a rate of 33%, 36% and 40% respective in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38658/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
154. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from a 1% levy applied to wealth in excess of €1 million for a single adult double that for a couple; his views on a recent report (details supplied) that such a levy on wealth would raise approximately €248 million for the exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38659/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
155. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from raising the VAT rate for the tourism and hospitality sector from 9% to 13.5% in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38660/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
156. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer from decreasing the headline rate of VAT by 1% for 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38661/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
157. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 17 May 2022, if he will specify the proposed levy percentage on the construction industry which is intended to raise in the region of €80 million a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38662/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
158. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated savings that would be made by ending the refundable element of the research and development tax credit from 1 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38663/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
159. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the expected yield from introducing a digital services tax on the same basis as France, Italy and Spain with a 3% tax rate in which a digital interface is provided and advertising services are based on user’s data with a €750 million global revenue threshold and a domestic revenue threshold of €25 million and €5 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38664/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
160. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reintroducing tax relief at the standard rate on trade union subscriptions on the same basis as applied up to its abolition in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38665/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
161. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to re-introduce a relief for rent credit as existed up to 2010 but without any age bands and available to all taxpayers at the standard rate of income tax for the following amounts of rent paid €2,000; €4,000 or €8,000 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38666/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
162. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield to Exchequer from the betting duty in the past three years; the anticipated yield that would accrue to the exchequer from increasing the betting duty for in-store and online betting to 3% and increasing the duty of 25% on commissions earned by betting intermediaries to 30% in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38667/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
163. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional yield from a 25-cent increase per pack of 20 cigarettes with an additional 50% for roll your own, a 50-cent increase with an additional 50% for roll your own in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38668/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
164. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a costing pathway with the first-year yield for equalisation of diesel and petrol excise rates over four years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38672/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
165. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from increasing the bank levy rate to 100% or to 157% and 200% respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38674/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
166. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of introducing a cycle to school scheme based on the cycle to work scheme in which a parent can claim back the cost of one bicycle per child through their salary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38674/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
167. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be raised from an increase in the rate of stamp duty to apply where a person purchases ten or more houses within a 12-month period from 10% to 17% respectively in tabular form; the additional revenue that would be raised if these respective rates applied to both apartments and in cases where properties are renting to local authorities that is, the removal of exception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38678/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
168. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield which would accrue from a 1% increase in the rate of stamp duty on non-residential property; the further yield that would accrue if these rates were only subject to sales above €500,000 or €1,000,000 respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38679/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
169. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue which would be raised from increasing commercial stamp duty from 7.5% to 15%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38680/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
170. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional yield from increasing the effective rate to 40% for all those earning in excess of €200,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38681/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Financial Services
Ged Nash
171. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of regulation of the financial industry by the Central Bank for 2020 and 2019 respectively; the total amount of subvention provided by the Central Bank for both years; the estimated savings that would accrue to the Exchequer from moving the entire cost of regulation of the financial sector onto the industry in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38682/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
172. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional yield to the Exchequer from a 0.1% and a 1% increase in the stamp duty applicable to transfers of shares, stocks and marketable securities in Irish incorporated companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38683/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
173. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer to reduce the interest on deferral of local property tax payments to an annual rate of 0.5% based on the latest available data in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38684/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
174. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional yield that would accrue from a dividend withholding tax rate of 41% on all dividends paid by REITs and IREF respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38685/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
175. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of claims for each individual item of allowable expenses against rental income based on the most recent data in tabular form; the cost to the Exchequer of claims from non-residential landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38687/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
176. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the savings to Exchequer from eliminating excise forgone on auto-diesel, marked gas oil, kerosene and fuel oil based on the latest available data; the savings to Exchequer from ending the diesel rebate scheme and excise forgone on commercial sea navigation in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38688/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
177. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield to the Exchequer from an annual levy on insurance firm profits at a rate of 1%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38690/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
178. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the yield gained from an increase in the initial once-off 6% charge to 20% with respect to the on discretionary trust tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38691/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
179. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of the removal and relocation expenses in 2018 and 2019 respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38692/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
180. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be raised from an additional charge on €100 on second or more properties (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38693/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
181. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue which would be raised from reducing the non-principal private residence charge at a rate of €200 or €500, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38694/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
182. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield from an increase in the 12.5% rate for trading profits by either 0.5% or 1%, to increase the 25% rate for non-trading profits by 1%, 2% or 5% in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38695/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Ged Nash
183. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Finance the estimated gains that would accrue to the Exchequer over the years 2021 to 2025 from the introduction of a minimum effective corporation tax rate of 12.5% and 15%, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38696/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Semi-State Bodies
Ged Nash
199. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the dividends paid by State owned enterprises in each of the last five years; the projected dividends to be received in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38614/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Summer Economic Statement
Ged Nash
200. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the €3 billion in the Summer Economic Statement related to already taken Budgetary decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38615/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Summer Economic Statement
Ged Nash
201. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specific amount provided for in the in the Summer Economic Statement under budgetary decisions in respect of demographics; the details of the way that figure was arrived at; the breakdown of the projected need across all Departments; the amount that is required by the Department of Social Protection, Department of Health, Department of Education and Department of Housing to meet demographic needs; the underlying evidence for those figures in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38616/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Summer Economic Statement
Ged Nash
202. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the amount provided in the Summer Economic Statement under budgetary decisions for the full-year cost of measures announced in Budget 2022; the breakdown of those costs and each individual measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38617/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Summer Economic Statement
Ged Nash
203. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the amount provided for in the Summer Economic Statement under budgetary decisions for the cost of the existing public service pay agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38618/22]