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:

Sorry - just to amplify my answer, in quite a lot of the cases where they do not pay the amount is referred to the Collector General for enforcement and some will be collected subsequently through enforcement methods such as sheriff collection, attachment and so on. It would have to be a ways down the road before you would say they did not actually pay anything, but, no, we do not. We only have the opportunity. It is a very narrow window. We must publish within the quarter following the quarter in which the settlement is made and that is our only opportunity to publish at the level of the individual.