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
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I am only trying to get the figures so I can frame my question. It has risen to 1,600 companies and we would expect that to continue. The cost of the scheme has increased to €708 million. Revenue had 520 compliance interventions between 2011 and 2015. I am just reading from the document. It emerged that €46.1 million had been inappropriately claimed, I suppose, and Revenue was getting it back. Is that right?