Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion

Dr. Keith Walsh:

Revenue does not take a view on whether something is part of the benchmark. We see our role as trying to gather the information, the numbers availing, the implications and the cost. We publish a very broad list of what we call "tax expenditures" but we do not define that relative to a benchmark.