PQ 67
67. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance his views on the VAT rate in relation to food supplements such as probiotics and glucosamine, which provide sustenance and are not taken for sports nutrition or body-building purposes but which, according to the Revenue Commissioners, should be liable to standard rate VAT of 23%, despite published guidance to say that food supplements that provide sustenance may continue to be supplied at the zero VAT rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40727/14]
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67. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance his views on the VAT rate in relation to food supplements such as probiotics and glucosamine, which provide sustenance and are not taken for sports nutrition or body-building purposes but which, according to the Revenue Commissioners, should be liable to standard rate VAT of 23%, despite published guidance to say that food supplements that provide sustenance may continue to be supplied at the zero VAT rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40727/14]
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