Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013

10:00 am

Mr. Joe Hamill:

We made a voluntary disclosure to Revenue. We worked through that, assessed all the houses, got valuations and put in place a process and came to an agreement with Revenue on how to treat our historical liability. We paid some penalties at the lowest end of the scale because we had come forward. It is completely sorted now. We have just given a summary report to the Comptroller and Auditor General on the outcome. There remain a few people who will have to pay benefit in kind as part of their own tax liability.