Tax Transparency Bill 2012
Public bill · Private Member · Introduced
The Tax Transparency Bill 2012 would require each income-tax payer to receive an annual statement showing taxes paid, expected payments, how those taxes are allocated to government spending, and their share of national debt, repayments and any surplus or deficit. It would also create an online calculator for estimating VAT and excise paid, and require government departments and agencies to publish purchase orders over €5,000 online, subject to exceptions. The aim is to make public finances easier to understand and government spending more open and accountable.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the annual issuance to each person paying Income Tax and other such direct taxes on earnings of an itemised statement of tax paid in the most recent tax year, the estimated tax payments to be made in the coming tax year and a breakdown of the areas of government spending on which the paid taxes are to be spent and in conjunction with this measure to provide an on-line mechanism whereby all payers of Value Added Tax and Excise may estimate the total amount of such taxes paid on goods and services with a view to calculating a similar detailed breakdown of the areas of government spending on which the paid taxes are to be spent and to make the necessary provisions so that every purchase order by a government department or agency for more than five thousand euro must be published
Last updated 12 April 2018
- Eoghan Murphy Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Tax Transparency Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] Dáil
- Tax Transparency Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] Dáil
- Tax Transparency Bill 2012: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
- Tax Transparency Bill 2012: First Stage Dáil