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
Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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He also indicated as a representative of the tax collecting body of the State that there was not an evasion of tax. On that basis, is it a red herring from the Commission that there is a pot of money due to the people of the State? It is being used in a political context as a pot of money that could be used for expenditure on a range of items. As the tax collecting body of the State, the Revenue Commissioners have been very definitive in saying there was full compliance with Irish tax law.