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. Niall Cody:

Yes. The Irish tax system now has a lot fewer reliefs than it used to have. There was a whole scheme of property-based reliefs that were brought in throughout the early 2000s, and from 2010 to 2012 a lot of them were withdrawn.