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
11:50 am
Ms Josephine Feehily:
Those are the figures that are published. While Mr. Rigney is checking I will explain something. We found ourselves in a funny situation a few years ago. Our position used to be that the figure that was published was what was collected - no question. Then after 2008, when businesses started failing, we found they could not pay us and so it became almost a haven from publication.