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 pay close attention to any business line. Over the last while, is have engaged in what we call our code of practice for compliance interventions. We have three levels of intervention. Level 1 is a reminder to somebody that if they have issues, they need sort them out. Level 2 is getting into an audit compliance intervention-type approach and is where we have seen returns that might not necessarily reflect the information that we have. I have seen some of the cases. Some of the people involved are actually very young and probably have no real understanding of it. What we are trying to do is to educate people to get them into the system. Our main interest is to get people to become compliant.