Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements
10:50 am
Ms Josephine Feehily:
No. It is a self-assessment tax. We do not do that with any tax. If people choose to self-assess too high and pay, the Minister for Finance would be very pleased.
On a more serious note, we have a refund programme in place because many people, particularly elderly people, took the Revenue estimate too much to heart. We will refund anybody in that position. We have already made several thousand refunds to those categories of people.
We have already collected approximately €3,000 for 2015. Most of those cases were people who were due a refund but who chose to leave it there for 2015.
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