IFA warns over contractor C2 requirement
Limerick IFA has called for the requirement for the production of the contractor C2 to only apply to the date of engagement of the contractor and not the completion of the work.
County vice-chairman Eddie Scanlan told a meeting of the executive it was unacceptable that farmers should be held responsible for something outside of their control. “It has to be good enough that the farmer ensures that the contractor is compliant at the time he is starting the job. The farmer cannot be responsible for what happens between the time a job is started and finished.
“It is not acceptable that a farmer can be left high and dry without his grant because the contractors tax status changed after he took on the job”.
Eddie told the meeting that any farmer engaging a contractor to do work under the Farm Improvement Scheme is required to provide a C2 tax clearance certificate for the contractor at the point of completion of the work. He said: “It should be good enough for the farmer to get a C2 from the contractor when he is taking on the work. Anything can happen between that and the time that the work is finished, but the farmer should not be held responsible, once the contractor was compliant at the time he was given the contract.”
He added: “A farmer could be left in a very serious situation if he was deprived of the grant because the contractors circumstances changed during the course of doing the work. The farmer should not be held responsible for that.”
