Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements

11:20 am

Ms Josephine Feehily:

I can certainly comment on them. If the Deputy wishes to talk about the actual cases, my colleague, Mr. Rigney, has reviewed them and can deal with them in detail. Let me enter a caveat - we must be extremely mindful that we do not identify cases; therefore, between us, we need to be careful not to cross a line in order that we might be capable of identifying cases. The cases have been reviewed and I am very pleased that it was found that they were charged correctly in the vast majority of cases. One of the interesting things in this entire chapter is that in the vast majority of cases all of the things worked. We chose the right cases and penalties.