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:

We have engaged with all the software providers. It is interesting that a number of them are providing free software for one or two employees. It is on the basis of getting them in at the start. For those who do not use payroll software we are providing a facility on ROS, the Revenue online service, to enter a simplified procedure. We have been conducting seminars throughout the country and somebody told one of our crew that he had got the software because of this. The person could not get over why he had not got it years ago because it is much cheaper and it did the wages.