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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-05-26/11/
26 May 1976 -
Value-added tax is a tax on the consumer; it is not a tax on the manufacturer or the distributor but...a tax on the end consumer....Betting, of course, is subject to an excise tax of 20 per cent....We did not impose value-added tax on newspapers; we inherited value-added tax on newspapers when we went...all the terrible things that every other form of tax I have mentioned in this Finance Bill is doing in
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-05-30/29/
30 May 2018 -
In fairness, Deputy Howlin was in Cabinet and understands about finance and the fact that the money was...When it was there in the budgets at the end of 2014 and into 2015 and 2016, it was committed and put
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-11-28/18/
28 Nov 2017 -
Minister of State at the Department of Finance (Deputy Michael D'Arcy) I will try to go through the...I will not mention any individual vulture funds, but the legislation is in place since 2015....That has been in place since 2015....it is a tax haven....Tax avoidance was referred to. We absolutely do not support tax avoidance.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1958-07-02/22/
2 Jul 1958 -
Dillon This provides for enactments to be repealed, but does the Minister know what the Finance Act...I do not know, and I do not know what Section 103 of the Income Tax Act, 1918, means.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-05-18/7/
18 May 1988 -
In recommendation No. 1 to section 1 on page 7 of the Bill, it is suggested that the figure £5,500 be...It deals with a specific group of people who now find themselves threatened by the tax net if we do not...amount of income tax out of their other pensions....these people but we are suggesting that the figures to which he has increased the allowances in the Finance...Bill are not at all in accordance with what we consider reasonable.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1932-07-07/11/
7 Jul 1932 -
Byrne I will appeal to the Minister to remit this tax, and, especially, the tax on Soccer football....The levy of this tax on Soccer football is (1) a vindictive levy, (2) a discriminatory levy, and (3)...I think this tax has been deliberately framed for one object, and one object only—to wipe out the playing...This tax is imposed against Soccer football particularly....the shareholders, I should like to tell the House this and I hope it will impress the Minister for Finance
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1952-06-06/3/
6 Jun 1952 -
warn the House that if there was going to be any fresh expenditure there would have to be increased taxes..., or at least part of these increased taxes, should have been imposed last year in order to enable Deputy...Norton, if he had then been in office, to finance his Social Welfare Bill, to provide for the increase...in the old age pensions, and in order to enable Deputy McGilligan, as Minister for Finance, the Minister...They know that they should have increased the tax on tobacco last year, but they were afraid of that,
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Debate: Select Committee On Finance, Public Expenditure And Reform, And Taoiseach
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/2017-11-09/3/
9 Nov 2017 -
At the beginning of the debate on the Finance Bill I said I was shocked that this increase in stamp duty...national newspapers, particularly on the weekend before the budget, in a way that I have never seen with a tax...The Minister for Finance suggested in his response that this was perhaps a method for getting a feeling...When it comes to developing tax policy, this is extremely unfair....Any report on this should look at this matter because tax information released before the applicable
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-04-25/27/
25 Apr 2012 -
No such supports are provided for in this Bill, however....are based on ability to pay - to finance our public services....revenue being earmarked to finance our local authorities....on income and wealth if they are fair, progressive and will finance quality public services....The Government should levy taxes on wealth and higher incomes that could finance quality public services
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Debate: Select Committee On Finance And The Public Service
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_finance_and_the_public_service/2001-03-07/2/
7 Mar 2001 -
It has not been highlighted much since the Finance Bill was published for other good reasons, but when...When in Opposition I was lobbied by the Irish charities tax reform group to get the Minister to change...When I became Minister for Finance, I acceded to its request....We might come down to a lower figure in a future Bill....I suspect people will decide to give £1,000 or £2,000, if they get the break at the top rate of tax.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-05-01/22/
1 May 1996 -
We share this concern and it has been substantially addressed by the tax and PAYE changes in the Finance...Bill....In 1994 income tax paid on farming profits — that is profits made by big farmers on declared income —...amounted to only 1.8 per cent of the tax take....farmers and ranchers, who gain from every available subsidy only had enough profit to pay 1.8 per cent tax
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Debate: Select Committee On Finance, Public Expenditure And Reform, And Taoiseach
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/2018-11-07/2/
7 Nov 2018 -
introduced in previous Finance Bills, many of which are being expanded in this Bill....Ours is not a tax-neutral position because it would actually bring in more tax, with a view to ensuring...scope for those at the higher end to pay additional tax....It would have cost us billions of euro and we would have had a huge hole in our public finances as a...Introducing income tax rates will not deal with the issue.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1963-07-16/58/
16 Jul 1963 -
matter, it seems there is more than slight confusion between his views and those of the Minister for Finance...These are organisations for which the Minister for Health and every Minister appeals for public support...I appeal to the Minister to exempt them....The Hierarchy are making appeals through their parish priests to the general public to contribute generously...I have refrained to a great degree from speaking on this Bill.
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Debate: Select Committee On Finance And The Public Service
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_finance_and_the_public_service/2010-02-24/2/
24 Feb 2010 -
Deputy Joan Burton In regard to the Sharia finance initiative, are anti-avoidance measures being introduced...Given that we are discussing capital losses which can accrue in Sharia finance and the grave difficulties...that can arise in this form of finance when there is disagreement among partner structures, anti-avoidance...Those involved in creating some of these structures have very fertile minds when it comes to maximising tax
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-02-28/28/
28 Feb 2001 -
Under the Finance Bill people on a minimum wage of £171.60 come within the income tax bracket....This cannot be allowed to continue and I ask the Minister to amend the Bill to ensure that those on the...minimum wage are taken out of the tax net....Parents continue to pay for child care out of taxed income....I am disappointed that the Finance Bill does not contain incentives under the town renewal scheme announced
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-06-18/26/
18 Jun 2015 -
Over the past decade a number of Bills have been introduced to try to assist in this....There are three aspects to the Bill: the vacant sites, the 10% social housing requirement, and the development...or guidelines are issued to the local authority or nationally to help An Bord Pleanála establish any appeals
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1988-05-18/7/
18 May 1988 -
Minister for Finance (Mr....Recommendations Nos. 1, 2, 7 and 8 propose to increase the general exemption limits as set out in the Bill...£4.5 million in 1988 and £7.6 million in a full year and would exempt some 10,600 taxpayers from the tax...Recommendations Nos. 3, 5, 9 and 11 propose to increase the age exemption limits as set out in the Bill...£1.4 million in 1988 and £2.1 million in a full year, while some 4,200 taxpayers would be exempt from tax
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-02-23/4/
23 Feb 2000 -
His central point of tax reform, starting from the bottom up, is absolutely right....There is nothing in the Bill that was not contained in the budget except for the changes in respect of...This Finance Bill was introduced by a Minister for Finance who is discredited by his own party....He introduced the Finance Bill with a cloud hanging over him, which was put there by his own party, and...Is this an effort by the Minister for Finance to stand his ground and the Taoiseach can meet them if
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Debate: Select Committee On Finance And The Public Service
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_finance_and_the_public_service/2008-02-19/2/
19 Feb 2008 -
Deputy Joan Burton In discussions at the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service and the...compliance, the construction industry and relevant contracts tax....numbers, tax certificates and, particularly, valuable tax breaks, we would have much higher levels of...In the case of properties subject to tax breaks, they have to give details such as tax numbers to the...It is to be recommended as a way of promoting tax compliance.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-11-04/17/
4 Nov 2020 -
Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh Like the budget, this Bill is most notable for its lack of vision....When Sinn Féin has argued for this measure in the past, the current Minister for Finance has argued that...Tax justice delayed is tax justice denied....Even if we had fully accepted the argument of the Minister for Finance, we in Sinn Féin feel that the...These are the people we needed to prioritise in this Finance Bill.
