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

12:50 pm

Ms Josephine Feehily:

Yes. There was a very interesting reaction to the household charge in some respects. This became our responsibility on 1 July. Before that, one could have paid €142. On 1 July, somebody walked into one of our offices to pay €200. This is the first time we have said we are now ready to do compliance work on the household charge, but without doing any work at all we have collected an amount of household charge. A total of €2.7 million has been lodged with us since 1 July in respect of 13,000 properties without us asking.