Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15: Local Property Tax
Chapter 16: Taxation of Rental Income
2014 Account of the Revenue Commissioners

10:00 am

Photo of Gabrielle McFaddenGabrielle McFadden (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

According to the briefing we were given, a sample of 50 was taken from the 5,000 properties that were awarded exemptions. The audit found that of the 50, some 40% of the exemptions which were claimed for houses that were in unfinished estates were not in designated estates. It was recommended by the Comptroller and Auditor General that the claims would be examined. What is the current position with that? What steps have the Revenue Commissioners taken to address the risk of incorrect claims being sent in respect of unfinished estates? What do the Revenue Commissioners do when they find this to be the case?

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