Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability

9:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

Right now, we are looking at our standards in relation to complex cases. It is interesting what the Deputy is talking about because we are talking about this among ourselves. I think the next challenge for us is how we deal with complex requests for clarification. We have guidelines on tax opinion and on the Revenue technical service which deals with outside of the large cases division, LCD. That is the real challenge for us over the next period, and it is linked in a way to what Deputy MacSharry was talking about, namely, resources in the context of significant retirements. Some of the people who were in Athlone dealing with these queries are no longer there. These are the challenges we have.