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
Mr. Niall Cody:
There is a good graph on page 247 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, which is the page before the one Deputy Connolly read from which. It lists the 26 companies, the 163 companies, the 5,127 companies and the 48,000 companies. With regard to the 26 companies, the people in our large cases corporate division know exactly the profile of each of those cases. We have their accounts for every year.
To return to the Chairman's question, if the Oireachtas was determining something, we would have very detailed, drilled-down information on all those cases. We would have detailed provisions on the 26 companies, the 163 companies and a significant proportion of the 5,127 companies. I spoke to Mr. Walsh around the time this report was toing and froing and we looked at the sectors where it can be identified that it is all capital allowances. They are pharmaceutical or manufacturing companies. There are sectors that can be identified-----
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