Enacted Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means 43/2020 Official bill number / year
Finance Bill 2020
- Sponsor
- Minister for Finance
- Introduced
- 20 Oct 2020
- Last updated
- 23 May 2022
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Increases Universal Social Charge thresholds and extends reduced USC rate for medical card holders through 2021 tax year.
- Creates Covid Restrictions Support Scheme: businesses forced to close/significantly reduce operations claim 10% of average weekly 2019 turnover (max €5,000/week) as advance trading expense credit, October 2020 to March 2021.
- Raises tobacco tax by 50 cents per 20-cigarette pack; implements ten-year carbon tax escalation on auto fuels, gas, and solid fuel, reaching €100 per tonne CO2 by May 2030.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil20 Oct 2020
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil4 Nov 2020
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil11 Nov 2020
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil2 Dec 2020
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil3 Dec 2020
- Second Stage 26th Seanad3 Dec 2020
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad9 Dec 2020
- Report Stage 26th Seanad11 Dec 2020
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad16 Dec 2020
- Enacted19 Dec 2020
Debates
- Report and Final Stages 16 Dec 2020
- Committee Stage 11 Dec 2020
- Second Stage (Resumed) 9 Dec 2020
- Second Stage 8 Dec 2020
- Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage 3 Dec 2020
- Order for Report Stage 2 Dec 2020
- Financial Resolution 11 Nov 2020
- Second Stage (Resumed) 5 Nov 2020
- Order for Second Stage 4 Nov 2020
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