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:

It is like the oil marker; anything can be reproduced but it will not be possible to reproduce all the security features. In the past couple of months we have a new tobacco stamp. Every number of years we have a new tobacco stamp with the most up-to-date security features. The tobacco stamp is our control mechanism. We keep a close eye to see if fraudulent tobacco stamps are being produced. Generally, this is not happening because where some of these cigarettes are being sold people are not particularly interested whether there is a tobacco stamp on the package.