Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 January 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses
9:30 am
Mr. Niall Cody:
We constantly look. Regarding some of the properties where there has not been engagement, there is a real challenge about knowing who the taxpayer and the owner are. It is not clear. There is the title. Some of them are probably owned by people who are not in the country. Correspondence is delivered and it is not seen because many people who own properties have left the country. To get that engagement, we need to know the definite owner. Part of our challenge around that 3% is that we actually do not know the definite owner. That does not mean we will ignore them. We are constantly working to improve the register and improve the LPT-----