Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15: Local Property Tax
Chapter 16: Taxation of Rental Income
2014 Account of the Revenue Commissioners

10:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

The big difference between the gross and the net is repayments. It is not a question of the difference between the estimate and the actuality. The biggest tax where there are significant repayments is VAT. I think gross receipts for VAT were approximately €14 billion and net receipts were approximately €11.7 billion. The VAT system works-----