Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report
12:00 pm
Ms Josephine Feehily:
We are always pursuing issues. We always have new projects and try to unearth new scams. This year alone, our special investigations will bring in approximately €25 million. The environment for tax evasion has changed enormously, particularly for global tax evasion. The EU savings directive gives us access to foreign bank accounts and now, given the environment under the OECD for the ending of banking secrecy and opening up automatic exchange of information in 2017, way outside the European Union, I have no doubt we will get new avenues of inquiry.
There is always something new.