Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production
9:00 am
Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Perhaps my next point does not fall in Revenue's area, but I was concerned last week by some of the reasons for which someone could get charitable status, including the advancement of religion and the advancement of education. Deputy Burke spoke about historical allowances and tax credits. With a view to tidying up the system, has Revenue considered moving the goalposts in terms of what is advancement of religion or education? If there are organisations whose reason for having a tax exemption is the advancement of religion, how much of that is interrogated? Some religions are very wealthy. Surely there is a great deal of revenue that could be gathered.