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

Photo of Shane CassellsShane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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I would appreciate that. The witness said the Revenue was being slated by certain people in the industry for being too heavy-handed in terms of audits that were being carried out. There are two ways it can approach the issue, being a full Revenue audit or the lesser intervention of issuing an aspect query letter. In the context of people saying Revenue is too heavy-handed, what is the scope for what is being achieved and the manner in which it is being done?