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

12:00 pm

Ms Josephine Feehily:

There is a very rigorous process before we accept that people cannot pay, with statements of affairs and so on. Many of them are liquidation cases, where the business has gone. The judgment call we made was to seek the change in the law so that at least we could publish them once, because up to then we could not publish them at all. Maybe I will think more about the Deputy's idea to see if we can propose that.