Tax Code
Dail Éireann — 2022-04-28
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

I do not know what the latest figure is but in some years we give out between €80 million and €100 million in section 481 film tax relief. It is supposed to be about developing an industry and industry capacity but, time and again, when workers on film productions take cases to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or try to assert their rights under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003, the film producers who get the section 481 relief go into court and say they could have no possible employment relationship with those workers. This is not acceptable.

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Sitting date: 2022-04-28