Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Tackling Fuel Laundering
Chapter 15 - Taxpayer Compliance
2015 Revenue Accounts
9:00 am
Mr. Niall Cody:
Yes. There is a detailed plan and we have started with oils. In 2013, before we started integrating, we put in place the supply chain system, which was a first and which gives us a monthly report of oil movements from traders. We have several systems for turning up anomalies. We introduced new IT systems to monitor and control the process but we are a big, diverse organisation and our senior people know an awful lot about stuff. One of the disadvantages is that it takes time to get them to work in a different way. They think they know how to do it so it takes a bit of time and this touches on the need to improve communications within districts, a point on which the Comptroller and Auditor General picked up. The revised guidelines will issue before the end of the year. Oil has gone into our integrated tax system, ITP, and the next project is alcohol.