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

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I thank Mr. Cody for coming in. He accepts all the recommendations of the Comptroller and Auditor General except two which were only part agreed. I welcome that he has come in, put his hands up and agrees with the recommendations. That is a very good start. Mr. Cody should correct me if I am wrong but the only two items he disagrees with is the concept of the audit gap and the tax gap. He partly agrees with those. To clarify that I understand what the audit gap is, it is the possible difference between registered taxpayers that are audited and those who are not audited. Is that correct?