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:

There is an estimated figure. Research indicates that 11% of smokers surveyed were found to have smoked a packet of illicit cigarettes, wherever they sourced them. That is actually an improvement. In 2012, it was 13% and in 2013 it was 12%. Somewhere in the region of the early teens of the cigarette market is illicit. The problem with cigarettes is that there are multiple entry points. There are, as we call them, ant smugglers-----