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:

Absolutely. This process has been going on for quite some time. Our logo is "Revenue/Cáin agus Custaim na hÉireann/Irish Tax and Customs". Obviously, there are historical reasons for some people's concern about this, because we had all sorts of departmental grades within Revenue. When the Chairman talks about stopping people on the road, generally, when one is being stopped on the road, one is not dealing with Customs issues at all but with excise and VAT, which represent two of the different wings of the organisation. When the first question came in, one thing we wished to make clear was we had not spent money on the rebranding. This rebranding has been ongoing and I believe Frank Daly was Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners when the process started.