Finance Act, 1993
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Amendment of Sixth Schedule to Principal Act. |
97.—(1) The Sixth Schedule (inserted by the Act of 1992) to the Principal Act is hereby amended— | |
(a) by the substitution in subparagraph (c) of paragraph (i) of “motor vehicle gas within the meaning of section 42 (1) of the Finance Act, 1976 ” for “gas of a kind specified in paragraph (i) of the Seventh Schedule”, | ||
(b) by the substitution in paragraph (xi) of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (d): | ||
“(d) lopping, tree felling and similar forestry services;”, | ||
(c) by the insertion of the following paragraphs after paragraph (xi): | ||
“(xii) newspapers and periodicals, normally published at least fortnightly, the contents of each issue of which consist, wholly or mainly, as regards the quantity of printed matter contained in them, of information on the principal current events and topics of general public interest; | ||
(xiii) (a) letting of immovable goods (other than in the course of the provision of facilities of the kind specified in paragraph (viia))— | ||
(I) by a hotel or guesthouse, or by a similar establishment which provides accommodation for visitors or travellers, | ||
(II) in a house, apartment or other similar establishment which is advertised or held out as being holiday accommodation or accommodation for visitors or travellers, or | ||
(III) in a caravan park, camping site or other similar establishment, | ||
or | ||
(b) the provision of accommodation which is advertised or held out as holiday accommodation; | ||
(xiv) tour guide services; | ||
(xv) the hiring (in this paragraph referred to as ‘the current hiring’) to a person of— | ||
(a) a vehicle designed and constructed, or adapted, for the conveyance of persons by road, | ||
(b) a ship, boat or other vessel designed and constructed for the conveyance of passengers and not exceeding 15 tonnes gross, | ||
(c) a sports or pleasure boat of any description, or | ||
(d) a caravan, mobile home, tent or trailer tent, | ||
under an agreement, other than an agreement of the kind referred to in section 3 (1) (b), for any term or part of a term which, when added to the term of any such hiring (whether of the same goods or of other goods of the same kind) to the same person during the period of 12 months ending on the date of the commencement of the current hiring, does not exceed 5 weeks; | ||
(xvi) every work of art being— | ||
(a) a painting, drawing or pastel, or any combination thereof, executed entirely by hand, excluding hand-decorated manufactured articles and plans and drawings for architectural, engineering, industrial, commercial, topographical or similar purposes, | ||
(b) an original lithograph, engraving, or print, or any combination thereof, produced directly from lithographic stones, plates or other engraved surfaces, which are executed entirely by hand, | ||
(c) an original sculpture or statuary, excluding mass-produced reproductions and works or craftsmanship of a commercial character, or | ||
(d) subject to and in accordance with regulations, an article of furniture, silver, glass or porcelain, whether hand-decorated or not, specified in the said regulations, where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners to be more than 100 years old, other than goods specified in subparagraph (a), (b) or (c); | ||
(xvii) literary manuscripts certified by the Director of the National Library as being of major national importance and of either cultural or artistic importance; | ||
(xviii) services consisting of— | ||
(a) the repair or maintenance of movable goods, or | ||
(b) the alteration of second-hand movable goods, other than such services specified in paragraph (v), (va) or (xvi) of the Second Schedule, but excluding the provision in the course of any such repair, maintenance or alteration service of— | ||
(I) accessories, attachments or batteries, or | ||
(II) tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for wheels of all kinds; | ||
(xix) services consisting of the care of the human body, excluding such services specified in the First Schedule, but including services supplied in the course of a health studio business or similar business; | ||
(xx) services supplied in the course of their profession by jockeys; | ||
(xxi) the supply to a person of photographic prints (other than goods produced by means of a photocopying process), slides or negatives, which have been produced from goods provided by that person; | ||
(xxii) goods being— | ||
(a) photographic prints (other than goods produced by means of a photocopying process), mounted or unmounted, but unframed, | ||
(b) slides and negatives, and | ||
(c) cinematographic and video film, | ||
which record particular persons, objects or events, supplied under an agreement to photograph those persons, objects or events; | ||
(xxiii) the supply by a photographer of— | ||
(a) negatives which have been produced from film exposed for the purpose of his business, and | ||
(b) film which has been exposed for the purposes of his business; | ||
(xxiv) photographic prints produced by means of a vending machine which incorporates a camera and developing and printing equipment; | ||
(xxv) services consisting of— | ||
(a) the editing of photographic, cinematographic and video film, and | ||
(b) microfilming; | ||
(xxvi) agency services in regard to a supply specified in paragraph (xxi); | ||
(xxvii) instruction in the driving of mechanically propelled road vehicles, not being education, training or retraining of the kinds specified in paragraph (ii) of the First Schedule; | ||
(xxviii) immovable goods; | ||
(xxix) services consisting of the development of immovable goods and work on immovable goods including the installation of fixtures, where the value of movable goods (if any) provided in pursuance of an agreement in relation to such services does not exceed two-thirds of the total amount on which tax is chargeable in respect of the agreement; | ||
(xxx) services consisting of the routine cleaning of immovable goods; | ||
(xxxi) (a) cakes, crackers and wafers and other flour-based bakery products other than those included in paragraph (xii) of the Second Schedule; | ||
(b) biscuits, other than biscuits wholly or partly covered or decorated with chocolate or some other similar product similar in taste and appearance.”. | ||
(2) The Sixth Schedule to the Principal Act is hereby further amended by the substitution of the following paragraphs for paragraph (xxxi) (inserted by this Act): | ||
“(xxxi) food of a kind used for human consumption, other than that included in paragraph (xii) of the Second Schedule, being flour or egg based bakery products including cakes, crackers, wafers and biscuits, but excluding— | ||
(a) wafers and biscuits wholly or partly covered or decorated with chocolate or some other product similar in taste and appearance, | ||
(b) food of a kind specified in subparagraph (c) or (e) (II) of paragraph (xii) of the Second Schedule, and | ||
(c) chocolates, sweets and similar confectionery; | ||
(xxxii) concrete ready to pour; | ||
(xxxiii) blocks, of concrete, of a kind which comply with the specification contained in the Standard Specification (Concrete Building Blocks, Part 1, Normal Density Blocks) Declaration, 1987 (Irish Standard 20: Part 1: 1987).”. |