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:

I will send Deputy Fleming the figure. I think that is the most sensible thing I can do.

With regard to the particular table that the Comptroller and Auditor General has drawn attention to, in reviewing the cases which at the time were not visible to the Comptroller and Auditor General's auditor, the not-known columns, we established that half of those cases were special investigation cases which had their own particular bank accounts and another quarter of them were restrictions of losses or restrictions of repayments, so they were collected in a different way. We have sent an update on the table, but if I were to wait another short while, I could send another update on that table which would show more of the 58 moving to the left and some of the 18. All of the 18 will have to move eventually-----