Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Double Taxation Relief Orders 2019, Swiss Confederation and Kingdom of the Netherlands

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is referring to a particular company that is covered in a major newspaper today. I can understand entirely why she wants to raise the matter, given some of issues raised by the newspaper today. It is simply not appropriate for me to comment on it. Any comments I make will be interpreted as applying to the affairs of a taxpayer and that is not something I believe is appropriate for me to do as Minister for Finance. Representatives of the Revenue Commissioners have been before this committee on many occasions and they rigorously follow up any issues relating to a breach of tax law. I am not going to make a comment that could be interpreted as applying to any individual or company as it would not be appropriate.

The Deputy asked about the work done by the Revenue Commissioners relating to high net worth individuals and I am happy to supply to the committee a note on recent progress made in this area, particularly across 2019. I thought I answered this when the Deputy raised the matter earlier but I know that some of the issues that have emerged from some of the data coming to the public domain relevant to Ireland have been investigated and followed up by the Revenue Commissioners.

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