Ms Josephine Feehily:

One of the reasons we took out the advertisement in the print media was that we were hearing that message. Some of this is not being helped by commentators. We wanted to be clear and put out a message in places where we believed it would be accessible, that is, national and, in particular, local newspapers, that it was a self-assessment tax. People make a decision, choose a payment option and make the return. They do not have to pay what is written on the Revenue assessment unless they agree with it as the tax is based on a self-assessment.