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:
The eligibility criterion for EWSS was a 30% reduction in projected turnover for the year compared to 2019. Halfway through the scheme, we introduced an employee registration record in which they had to declare their actual turnover on a monthly basis and compare it. We built up the data and checked them all through the use of data analytics. We reviewed it on an ongoing basis and outliers were marked for intervention. We followed up with those interventions. We did a high rate of compliance interventions on EWSS, much higher than in the normal course of our audit programmes.
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