Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for any duplication as I missed the first 30 minutes of our meeting because of Dáil speaking time. The TAC is new to me. I was not aware of it. Many people believe that Revenue is a law until itself and there is no appeal commission. The structure I have been reading about is well placed. It has existed since 2016.

With regard to the recommendations made in last year's accounts by the Comptroller and Auditor General, the amount of tax under appeal in July 2018 was €1.8 billion. This seems to have doubled. Notwithstanding that a portion of this sum will be successfully appealed, a considerable amount will fall to be collected. The timely receipt of Exchequer amounts due is dependent on how efficiently the TAC processes and finalises appeals cases. The recommendation from the committee at that time was that measurable targets would be set for progressing and finalising tax appeals on an annual basis. Will the witnesses update the committee on the TAC's progress in achieving its output targets on closing tax appeals and issuing determinations since the implementation of the recommendation?

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