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:

Yes. We work with the Office of Tobacco Control to try to estimate what is the amount of illicit and non-duty paid cigarettes. The estimate of the non-Irish duty paid market is somewhere in the region of €250 million but that is not all to do with smuggling. A person is perfectly entitled to buy cigarettes when going on holidays and bring them into Ireland for personal use. There is a component of-----