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
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I wish to raise a point with Mr. Cody. Is there any benefit in looking at that? I have no wish to stray into policy or the political sphere, but in recent times there has been debate about whether we should have a wealth tax. One reason it is difficult to have that debate is we cannot get an answer to the question of how much could be generated from such a tax. That is because we do not collect data for wealth. Is this something at which Revenue has looked to try to find better ways to accumulate data and information on people's wealth, especially that of high wealth individuals?
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