In recent years, information on the indexation of tax credits and bands has been included in the annual tax strategy group paper on income tax. There is only one company in Ireland that has decided to dodge the tax pitfalls – not the tax, but the tax pitfalls – and work around it.
On the refundable tax credit - I say this to be helpful on an important matter - the Deputies will be aware that, in advance of budget 2024, the tax strategy group looked in its series of papers at the whole issue of refundable tax credits and outlined its concerns, not only about it being a fundamental change to the personal tax system but, on the other hand, that it would not necessarily assist as many people as we would like in the way we would hope.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 59–82 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 57–79 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 57–78 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 57–77 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 56–75 |
| Question put: | Carried | 76–60 |
| Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." | Lost | 59–78 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 75–62 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." | Carried | 75–62 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 48–88 |
| Question put: "That the motion be agreed to." | Carried | 118–18 |
| Question put: | Carried | 73–62 |
| Question put: | Carried | 74–60 |
| Question put: | Carried | 73–62 |
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