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
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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The figure referred to consultants working in public hospitals but having a public contract and a private income. First, they availed of public hospitals to carry out private practices. Second, they can incorporate the private income, which means they pay less tax.
Then there is No. 3, which is the problematic one, potentially. If they were availing of expenses they should not have been availing of, would Mr. Cody have seen that as avoidance or evasion?