Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report

1:00 pm

Ms Josephine Feehily:

There were ten convictions in the tax space as opposed to duty, with custodial sentences imposed in seven of them. Four were fully suspended. One was partially suspended, and in two cases community service hours were imposed and so on. There were also fines.

On the duty side, there were 25 convictions in 2013. Sentences were imposed in 15, 12 of which were suspended. Actual prison terms between the two, therefore, were six cases - three for tax and three for duty evasion in 2013.

I can give the Deputy 2014 figures if that would help.