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:

What we have done is that we have made the property tax data available to the people involved in compliance work in large cases and the high net worth individuals. They have access to the information in the context of reviews that they would do of high net worth individuals. For the moment, we have made the data available to our officers for compliance. Further compliance projects based on this data could be done, but that is down the road. For the moment, our priority has been to secure an amount of tax and to get people onto the register. We are now giving people an opportunity to self-correct. Using the data for other interventions is at the discretion of the auditors for the moment. There is no doubt there are the makings of compliance projects here, but I see that as down the road.