Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9: Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17: Revenue's Progress in Tackling Tobacco Smuggling
Chapter 18: Management of High Wealth Individuals' Tax Liabilities
Chapter 19: Corporation Tax Losses
9:00 am
Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Yes. I refer to reassessing the scale of the illegal trade because there was a major success in Jenkinstown, County Louth in March 2018 with the seizure of 23.5 million counterfeit cigarettes. A value of €47.8 million was put on those, so there was a loss to the Exchequer of €37 million. When there are major hauls like that - and it involved much work - is there a reassessment of what is the loss to the State?
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