Finance Act 2007

Amendment of section 8 (taxable persons) of Principal Act.

79.— Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) with effect from 1 March 2007—

(i) in subsections (3), (3A) and (9), by substituting “€35,000” for “€27,500” in each place it occurs, and

(ii) in subsection (3) by substituting “€70,000” for “€55,000” in each place it occurs,

and

(b) in subsection (8)—

(i) in paragraph (a)—

(I) by substituting “, established in the State and engaged in the supply of goods or services in the course or furtherance of business,” for “established in the State”,

(II) by substituting “for the purpose of this Act, the said Commissioners may, whether following an application on behalf of those persons or otherwise” for “subject to such conditions as they may impose by regulations, the said Commissioners, for the purposes of this Act, may”,

(III) by substituting the following subparagraph for subparagraph (i):

“(i) by notice in writing to each of those persons deem them to be a single taxable person, referred to in this section as a ‘group’ and the persons so notified shall then be regarded as being in the group for as long as this paragraph applies to them, but the provisions of section 9 shall apply in respect of each of the members of the group, and—

(I) one of those persons, who shall be notified accordingly by the Commissioners, shall be responsible for complying with the provisions of this Act in respect of the group, and

(II) all rights and obligations arising under this Act in respect of the transactions of the group shall be determined accordingly, and”,

and

(IV) in subparagraph (ii) by substituting “make each person in the group” for “make each such person”,

(ii) by deleting paragraph (c), and

(iii) by inserting the following after paragraph (d):

“(e) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations as seem to them to be necessary for the purposes of this subsection.”.