Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised)
5:00 pm
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I will read the note:
Local property tax needed to be implemented within a very aggressive timeframe due to the economic situation at the time and the priorities set by both the Government and the troika. As a result, a number of other key projects needed to be deferred. The additional €5 million spent on external resources ensured that Revenue was able to regain lost time on these deferred implementations. These included mandatory projects such as the EU mandated VAT MOSS project, the diesel rebate scheme project introduced in the 2013 budget, and the FATCA tax project required to support the intergovernmental agreement signed between the US and Ireland in December 2012. In addition, some strategic corporate programmes were also postponed, including projects to aid debt collection and identify fraud.
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