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
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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A guy caught with a bit of green diesel in the tank of his tractor or car gets a bigger fine than that. Those guys are charged €5,000 or €2,500. That is wrong too. I am not condoning it. I am just saying that the proportional difference between the fines and the gains here is extraordinary. Revenue probably cannot change that, but I find the figures extraordinary.