Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask Mr. Cody to bear with me. Had he not done that, he would not have been in a position to do the work he did to recover the €47 million or whatever it was that he recovered. Therefore, one can take it as read that this is happening in other sectors. I have given Mr. Cody one example. He is the person in charge of making sure we collect as much tax as possible. We already accepted earlier that tax evasion is not a victimless crime. In all instances where individuals are incorporating private income, that would be - I will not say unusual, but it is private income that, in normal circumstances, should be taxed as PAYE income. In those circumstances, as with hospital consultants, has Mr. Cody now gone through all the different sectors to see whether there is the same level of tax evasion in all those areas?

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