St James's Place International plc

Lobbying Organisation St James's Place International plc

Date published 10 Jan, 2020

Relevant Matter Legislation

Public Policy Area Taxation

Period 1 Jan, 2019 to 30 Apr, 2019

Specific Details Interaction between Brexit and an exemption previously granted to our organisation under Sect 730D (2A) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. Request was to include an amendment to that section within the Brexit bill so as to mitigate the unintended impact on our customers.

Intended results Definition of 'offshore state' in the legislation be amended so that our customers would not be inadvertently impacted.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Fintan McKeown, Managing Director (at the time) of St James's Place International plc

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Letter (2-5)

Original letter dated 4 March 2019. Follow up letter dated 19 July 2019 (to DPO's private secretary) in response to the DPO's initial response.

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Paschal Donohoe Minister (Department of Finance)

Paschal Donohoe Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)