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

12:00 pm

Ms Josephine Feehily:

Absolutely. All I am saying is that because it is this morning's figure until they are actually processed I cannot say what proportion has paid. What I can say, which might be helpful, is that when we had about 400,000 I looked at the spread of payment options and found that about 45% had paid in full. Those were last week's numbers. Another third had selected a debit option which might be a single debit or a direct debit. Less than 10% were choosing the deduction at source option and another less than 10% were paying at the various outlets An Post, Omnivend and so on or by cheque. Less than 10% were choosing cash or cheque options which is not the most popular option.