Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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To move onto the bigger picture and the issues Mr. Cody touched on in respect of the audit gap, the statistics in the random audits are consistent over the past number of years. Roughly one third, and for the past few years it has been as high as 40%, of those audited have been found to have underpaid their tax and owe on average of €18,500 in unpaid tax. In terms of the audit gap, the loss in a tax year as a result of non-compliance was put at about 2% of total liability by the Comptroller and Auditor General in his report. Mr. Cody said that his office does not produce estimates of the gap. Has his office drawn up a plan to implement its undertaking to review the role of the audit gap measurement and its impact on the office's random audit programme?