Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993
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Regulations for collection of self-employment contributions, etc. |
[1988, s. 11] | |
20.—(1) For the purposes of self-employment contributions payable under section 18(1)(b) and (c), regulations may provide for— | ||
(a) the time and manner of payment of self-employment contributions, | ||
(b) the collection and the recovery of and the furnishing of details in relation to self-employment contributions, | ||
(c) the charging of interest on arrears of self-employment contributions, | ||
(d) the waiving of interest due on arrears of self-employment contributions, | ||
(e) the estimation of amounts due in respect of self-employment contributions and appeals in relation to such estimates, | ||
(f) the furnishing of returns by employers in relation to periods of insurable self-employment, | ||
(g) the deduction by an employer from the reckonable emoluments of a self-employed contributor of any self-employment contribution reasonably believed by the employer to be due by the contributor, and adjustment in any case of overdeduction, and | ||
(h) any matter ancillary or incidental to any of the matters referred to in any of the preceding paragraphs of this subsection. | ||
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(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations under that subsection may provide for the assignment of any function relating to a matter referred to in that subsection to the Collector-General or to such person as may be specified. | ||
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(3) The provisions of any enactment or instrument made under statute relating to the estimation, collection or recovery of income tax or the inspection of records for those purposes or relating to appeals in relation to income tax shall with any necessary modifications apply in relation to self-employment contributions in respect of reckonable emoluments that the Collector-General is obliged to collect as they apply in relation to income tax. | ||
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(4) Self-employment contributions payable by a self-employed contributor for a contribution year under section 18(1)(a) in respect of reckonable income shall be assessed, charged and paid in all respects as if they were an amount of income tax and they may be stated in one sum (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the “aggregated sum”) with the income tax contained in any computation of or assessment to income tax made by or on the self-employed contributor for the year of assessment (within the meaning of the Income Tax Acts) which coincides with the contribution year and for this purpose the self-employed contributions may be so stated notwithstanding that there is no amount of income tax contained in the said computation or assessment and all the provisions of the Income Tax Acts, other than any such provisions in so far as they relate to the granting of any allowance, deduction or relief, shall apply as if the aggregated sum were a single sum of income tax. | ||
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(5) Where an election made or deemed to be made under section 195 of the Income Tax Act, 1967 , has effect for the year of assessment the self-employment contributions payable by a wife shall be charged, collected and recovered as if they were the contributions of her husband provided that the question as to the amount of the self-employment contributions so payable in respect of the husband or the wife shall not be affected by the provisions of this subsection. | ||
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(6) In any proceedings instituted by virtue of this Act, a certificate purporting to be signed by the Collector-General or by any officer duly appointed by the Minister in that behalf which certifies that an amount in respect of employment or self-employment contributions is due and payable by the defendant shall be evidence until the contrary is proved that that amount is so due and payable. |