Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
9:00 am
Mr. Mark O'Mahony:
It did. We eventually received a listing of the final tranche of legacy appeals on A3 printouts. We received a soft copy - an electronic copy - of that information in November of last year.
There was only one person who had the password and that person was on annual leave so we could not access that until early this year. There were issues with the accuracy of the data we received. There were appeals that had been settled. There were taxpayers who had died. There were appeals that had been withdrawn. So we had to carry out - I cannot overstate how time-consuming this was - a quality control exercise on the data as we manually inputted every single piece into our case management system. It was a huge task.
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