Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
10:00 am
Mr. Pádraig Dalton:
Yes. The Revenue Commissioners collect the data in Ireland and that is the case in the vast number of member states. We take the data from the Revenue Commissioners and process, analyse and publish it but that is not the case in every other country. In a number of countries the entire process is managed by their revenue or customs organisation but it differs in other countries. In Belgium, for example, its national central bank collects the data. The Revenue Commissions collect the data using the INTRASTAT survey and then we take the data from them in order to conduct the relevant processing and analysing. Companies are legally required to provide the data.
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