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

11:30 am

Ms Josephine Feehily:

It was not. They were round sum settlements. They were technical cases - both A and B. They were arrived at after intense negotiation. Arrived at in the case of A after a lot of well documented internal consultation, including senior counsel advice. In case B, there was poorly documented consultation. That was a judgment call that was made, it was that was as much money as could be secured in those cases with no consensus that we could prevail in litigation.