Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Exchequer Revenue

Pearse Doherty

229. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by standardising the relief relating to investment in film. [31249/14]

Exchequer Revenue

Pearse Doherty

230. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by standardising investment in rented residential relief under section 23. [31250/14]

Exchequer Revenue

Pearse Doherty

231. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by reducing mortgage interest deductions against rent for landlords from 75% to 41%, 40%, 35% and 30%, respectively. [31251/14]

Exchequer Revenue

Pearse Doherty

232. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by increasing withholding tax on royalties, where it applies, from 20% to 22%, 23%, 24% and 25%, respectively. [31252/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

233. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year cost to the Exchequer of abolishing the local property tax. [31253/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

234. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year cost to the Exchequer of reducing windfall tax from 80% to 60%, 50% and 40%, respectively, for development land disposals. [31254/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

235. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year cost to the Exchequer of raising the VAT registration threshold for small medium enterprises with low turnover from €70,000 to €100,000, €150,000, €175,000, €200,000 and €250,000, respectively. [31255/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

236. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year cost to the Exchequer from exempting income earners below €17,542 per annum from the universal social charge. [31256/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

237. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year cost to the Exchequer of extending the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concession scheme to those who would otherwise qualify but are disqualified because they do not buy their cars from authorised dealers. [31257/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

238. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year cost to the Exchequer of not increasing universal social charge from 4% for a series of earners in 2015, as planned, and the offset to this cost of maintaining the higher rate of USC for the self-employed from 10% to 7%. [31258/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

239. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year cost to the Exchequer of allowing entrepreneurs-small to medium enterprise start-ups a three-year capital gains tax window for selling on their ideas or businesses. [31259/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

240. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to set out the partial and full year cost to the Exchequer of dividing the capital gains tax categories into passive and active and applying a 40% rate to the passive CGT activity, that is, buying shares and the existing rate to active engagement, that is, selling on a business. [31260/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

241. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost of maintaining the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality sector; and his plans to continue with this measure. [31261/14]

Exchequer Savings

Pearse Doherty

242. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the amount carried over to 2015 as a result of budget 2014 measures; and if he will provide detailed breakdown thereof. [31262/14]

Tax Reliefs Application

Pearse Doherty

243. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if the pension provisions of budget 2013 pertaining to contributions no longer receiving tax relief once the pension fund has exceeded the standard fund threshold have been enacted; if so, the amount the measures generated or if recently enacted what they are planned to generate. [31263/14]

Tax Exemptions

Pearse Doherty

244. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the exemptions applicable for withholding tax with an associated cost for each exemption; an analysis of the exemptions that could be abolished; the impact of their abolition; and the savings that would generate for the Exchequer. [31264/14]

VAT Payments

Pearse Doherty

245. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the lotteries developed in Slovakia and now Portugal which encourage consumers to submit receipts for purchases to the lotto in order that the government can create paper trails to ascertain which retailers and merchants are not complying with VAT laws, using false receipt numbers and so on; if he encountered problems with VAT returns here and if he envisages a merit in such an initiative; and if an initiative such as this was pursued, and a car is awarded each month to the winner, the cost of running the lotto and the potential reward to the Exchequer from increased VAT compliance. [31265/14]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

246. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the total tax take to GDP according to the last calculable year; the European average; and if there is a shortfall the way he proposes the State move towards the average. [31266/14]

National Debt

Pearse Doherty

247. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the current cash holdings in the National Treasury Management Agency; the current national debt and the amount that will be spent on serving the interest associated with this debt in 2015; and if a portion of the cash in the NTMA was used to buy back debt with a higher interest rate, what would be saved in interested spending in 2015. [31267/14]

EU Budget Contribution

Pearse Doherty

250. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance Ireland's contribution to the EU budget for 2014 and for 2015. [31304/14]