Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 July 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals
9:30 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
Just to provide some helpful figures, figure 14.5 in the report gives a breakdown of the 3,918 cases that were closed between the establishment of the commission and December 2019. We report that 14% of the cases closed were refused and 8% were dismissed. They are significant proportions. That is how 22%, or nearly a quarter, of cases ended as far as the commission was concerned. I do not have anything further in the chapter in relation to the reasons for that. I understand that these figures were given to us by the commission. I confirm that is the information we have received.