Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997 (Number 39 of 1997)
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530H Standard rate subcontractor.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this section applies to a person in relation to whom the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that the person—
(a) is or is about to become a subcontractor engaged in the business of carrying out relevant operations,
(b) carries on or will carry on business from a fixed place established in a permanent building and has or will have such equipment, stock and other facilities as in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners are required for the purposes of the business,
(c) properly and accurately keeps and will keep any business records to which section 886(2) refers and any other records normally kept in connection with such a business,
(d) has throughout the previous 3 years complied substantially with the obligations imposed by the Tax Acts, the Capital Gains Tax Acts and the Value-Added Tax Acts,
(e) in the case of a person who was resident outside the State at some time during the previous 3 years, has throughout that period complied with the obligations comparable to those mentioned in paragraph (c) and has throughout that period complied substantially with the obligations comparable to those mentioned in paragraph (d) imposed by the laws of the country in which that person was resident at any time during that period,
(f) has provided to the Revenue Commissioners whatever information is required by them to register the person for tax purposes, and
(g) is not a person to whom section 530G applies.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(d), the Revenue Commissioners may make regulations identifying matters to be taken into account by them, including—
(a) the payment or remittance of taxes, interest and penalties,
(b) the delivery of returns,
(c) the supply, on request, of accounts or other information to a Revenue officer, and
(d) the extent to which any non-compliance is being addressed.
(3) This section does not apply to—
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(a) a person engaged in the business of carrying out relevant contracts in partnership unless all persons in that partnership are persons to whom this section applies and unless the partnership business itself has complied with the obligations referred to in subsection (1) and the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that it will continue to comply with those obligations, or
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(a) a person engaged in the business of carrying out relevant contracts in partnership unless the partnership business itself has complied with the obligations referred to in subsection (1) and the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that it will continue to comply with those obligations, or
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(b) a person if the Revenue Commissioners form an opinion that deductions from relevant payments at the standard rate of tax for the year of assessment will be insufficient to fully satisfy the income tax liability of the person for that year.
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(4) This section also applies to a person who satisfies the Revenue Commissioners that, in all the circumstances, the matter or matters referred to in subsection (1), (2) or (3), which would otherwise cause such person not to be a person to whom this section applies, ought to be disregarded for the purposes of this section.
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