asked the Minister for Finance his attitude towards the EEC draft directive on a withholding tax affecting trans-frontier payments of dividends and the flow of capital into Ireland.
Written Answers. - EEC Withholding Tax Directive.
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Presumably the question refers to the proposal for a Council Directive concerning the harmonisation of systems of company taxation and of withholding taxes on dividends which was transmitted to the Council by the Commission on 1 August 1975. When the proposed directive comes to be considered by the Council, I shall press for full derogation from all provisions which conflict with our industrial incentive reliefs.