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:
We did not engage in any mandatory action on people whose sole income was social welfare because they would qualify for deferral. The first year we referred cases to the sheriff or solicitor was in 2014. The number of cases was 2,000. I recall from discussing this with the Collector General that the first 400 cases which went to the sheriff had immediate compliance activity. There has been one case where the sheriff had to use his enforcement powers, which worked.