Public Representatives (Provision of Tax Clearance Certificates) Bill 2000
Public bill · Private Member · Introduced
Candidates for the Oireachtas, local authorities, European Parliament and nominated Seanad seats would generally need tax clearance certificates, covering their own, partnership and controlled-company tax obligations. Candidates could appeal refusals, but elected representatives who lost an appeal would be suspended without payments and could lose their seat after six months; an offence would apply to knowingly obtaining a certificate improperly.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the issue by the Collector-General of tax clearance certificates in respect of candidates for election to membership of the Houses of the Oireachtas, local authorities and the European Parliament, for an appeal against the refusal to issue such a certificate, for the suspension from the service of the relevant House or local authority of a member in respect of whom such a certificate is refused until such time as the conditions for the issue of a certificate are satisfied, for the cesser of membership of a House or a local authority of a member who stands so suspended for a period of 6 months, for the cesser of membership of a representative in the European Parliament whose appeal against a refusal to issue such a certificate has been disallowed, and to provide for related matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
- Derek McDowell Primary
- First StageDáil
- Public Representatives (Provision of Tax Clearance Certificates) Bill, 2000: First Stage. Dáil