Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts

9:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

I mentioned to Deputy Alan Farrell that there were words we tried to avoid. We do not deliberately go after anybody. We apply a risk-based evaluation to see what are the appropriate cases in which to make interventions. When one is dealing with something such as the research and development credit, some of the errors made in terms of the restrictions are purely that. A lot of the recoveries from our compliance activity stem from innocent errors. The tax code is complicated. We have only one of the tax Acts with us, but one could throw-----

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