Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: VAT on Intra-Community Trade
11:10 am
Ms Josephine Feehily:
I think it has, if we can target it properly. I am not saying that if we analyse any 600 cases in other districts, we will get the same results. That would not happen. We need to try to identify the hallmarks that made this yielding and then determine if there are comparable slices we can take and give them to other districts to work on. At the same time, we will be asking ourselves similar questions about the other two investigations that are under way. We will try to identify the hallmarks. As I said earlier, ideally we should automate them to stop them happening. Failing that, putting them into the risk analysis system should mean the cases are selected for audit anyway, without having to do a special project. The learning is in finding the hallmarks and turning them into rules.