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

12:40 pm

Ms Josephine Feehily:

If we were seeking staff in the context of compliance work, and if we were doing it by return on investment, we would look at the other taxes long before we would look at the LPT. The property tax charge is small. What I meant in our earlier conversation about projects is that there is interesting intelligence that can be divined by analysing property tax information with tax returns made in the past to see if there is evidence of mismatches - lifestyle, bank accounts, cash - about which we could ask where the person may have got the funds for such property. The focus would be on the other taxes but the property tax data would help us.