Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2021 Report of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15 - Collection of VAT on e-Commerce
Chapter 16 - Revenue's Suspension of Periodic Reviews of Tax Clearance Certificates
Chapter 17 - Overstatement of Certain Unallocated Tax Deposits
9:30 am
Mr. Niall Cody:
In the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS, we reviewed all the cases. We did a reconciliation exercise. The comptroller is always encouraging me to do random audits and we keep saying we do too many, but we did a compliance review of all recipients of TWSS. We did it differently then because we learned from TWSS when we introduced EWSS. With EWSS, we did a rolling compliance programme on key issues around eligibility. EWSS was challenging. This is why we did not impose penalties. Companies had to project forward and say they would have a 30% reduction. Health restrictions changed through the year. Sometimes we all forget what we went through in 2020 and 2021.
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