Thousands Of Workers Who Received Wage Subsidies Last Year Will Be Told Of Taxes Due Next Week
Employees who were on the Temporary Wage Subsidy and the PUP must settle outstanding Revenue bills, which could amount to more than €1,000
The taxes are due as the Government rushed through the introduction of the subsidies, in response to the pandemic, without allowing for them to be taxed at source.
Sinn Féin's Finance Spokesperson, Pearse Doherty says clawing back some of the taxes is unfair:
"The Pandemic Unemployment Payment under law was tax exempt and there's no ifs, buts or maybes, it was tax exempt. And what the government did was that they rewound the clock- they did something that was never done before in the history of tax legislation, and that is they retrospectively taxed it, which means that certain people will be getting bills or will have liabilities of anything up to €1,400.
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