Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 July 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015

9:00 am

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

This will absolutely be my last question. It says that the top ten returns accounted for almost two thirds of receipts with a similar share attributable to company directors or shareholders. This seems to be very similar to corporation tax in that it is peculiar to a small number of companies. Mr. Moran was asked earlier about the corporation tax for companies and he said that Revenue does not give the Department the names of the companies. Is it possible that these are the same companies and that not only do we again have an overdependence on a small number of companies in respect of corporation tax but potentially that same overdependence in terms of capital gains tax?

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