Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 June 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners

3:00 pm

Dr. Keith Walsh:

Perhaps it is the same point as I mentioned to a Deputy earlier. For today's presentation, we were asked to focus on 2015, as was pointed out, and the paper we published in April of this year had the main purpose of focusing on increases in 2016 compared with 2015, so there is a bit more information there. The paper the previous year was also a year-on-year comparison. We also publish a significant amount of information on our website. Over the past number of years we have done much work and the Deputy may know we used to produce what was called the Revenue's statistical report. As the name suggests, this was a paper report that became a PDF report. It was kind of a once-off document that we published once per year when we had all the data together. It was a static document.

In the past few years we have moved the report online, where all the data are interactive and more dynamic and we update it more regularly. What we have online includes much of what the Deputy is seeking, including spreadsheets and PDF documents with trading results, credits information and the cost of various measures to the Exchequer. It is there over multiple years and for most of our information it is there over a period of five years or so. Data from earlier years are available.

We have put much effort into trying to put our data out there and making it more open and accessible, as we are encouraged to by the Government's Open Data initiative. In the past few months we have set up a mailing list so if someone is having difficulty finding our sources, we can subscribe that person to a mailing list and at the end of every month or quarter we send a email indicating we have just published or updated information, with a link to particular tables etc. We would be happy to add anyone to that.

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