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

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On page 36 of the annual report serious tax duty evasions is mentioned. Deputy Connolly referred earlier to the topic covered in this regard. There were 11 convictions for a serious duty offence and custodial sentences of 18 were imposed in two cases, with the final six months in one case having been suspended on appeal. A custodial sentence of 18 months was reduced to time served in a further case. Seven cases resulted in suspended custodial sentences ranging from three months to two years. Chart 22 on page 80, which is related to this item, is a summary of criminal convictions in 2015. Was there any conviction for income tax offences? There was a conviction for non-filing of tax returns in respect of a mineral oil tax; convictions in respect of VAT, cigarette selling and cigarette smuggling but there is no mention of any conviction in respect of income tax?

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