Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 October 2016

Public Accounts Committee

2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Tackling Fuel Laundering
Chapter 15 - Taxpayer Compliance
2015 Revenue Accounts

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Photo of Alan FarrellAlan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Under the help to buy scheme as announced, although that measure has not been passed yet, first-time buyers will have to file a return for the previous four years, form 12. I presume it will be an online process. Is there an opportunity for the Revenue Commissioners to simplify it for the normal self-employed or multiple income earning, pay as you earn, PAYE, worker and how might that be improved for this particular programme? These will be people who probably have never filed a tax return in their lives.

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