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. Michael Gilligan:
My understanding is that on the customs and tax side, these are Revenue officials working using all the Revenue powers under the coat of the Criminal Assets Bureau along with officers of the bureau. When they raise the assessments, they also undertake all the collection. It initially goes into a Criminal Assets Bureau account and then moves into a Revenue account.