Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9: Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17: Revenue's Progress in Tackling Tobacco Smuggling
Chapter 18: Management of High Wealth Individuals' Tax Liabilities
Chapter 19: Corporation Tax Losses

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

No; it is a statement of fact. Without that level of information, the Revenue Commissioners perhaps have to use other sources. There are obligations at certain points when declarations of assets have to be made, but they do not apply in the same way as when income returns are being made on a yearly basis.