At least five of eight serving assistant commissioners now seeking role following pledge to change how large pension pots are taxed
The successful candidate for the deputy commissioner role would be regarded as being in a strong position to succeed Garda Commissioner Drew Harris when his contract expires next year. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins
This was a result of almost all of the serving assistant commissioners refusing to go forward for promotion because of a dispute over the high levels of tax that would apply to their pensions on retirement. However, the role was again posted in July, a move that infuriated many senior officers. The application deadline had to be extended last month when most of the assistant commissioners again opted against putting themselves forward.
The news will be welcomed by the Government and Garda headquarters, which looks set to be spared having to again discontinue the recruitment process for what should be one of the most coveted jobs in Irish policing. Meanwhile, judges, doctors, pilots and senior civil servants have maintained that the failure of Government to index link the limits on the capital value of tax-relieved pension benefits that an individual can draw over a lifetime had inadvertently pushed them into the net of facing significant taxation on retirement.
Department of Finance documents show Ms McEntee wrote to the then minister for finance Michael McGrath last December on behalf of judges. In late January, Mr Harris wrote to the Department of Finance on the issue of the standard fund threshold. It emerged last year that concern over tax implications on retirement was dissuading gardaí from seeking promotion to more senior positions.
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