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. Joe Howley:
Yes. On the engagement, we are doing an outreach programme by contacting and talking by phone to the 5,400 cases with large debts in the warehouse. For the vast bulk of the other debt, we are dealing with representative bodies. Last week we had a webinar with the Small Firms Association in conjunction with the local enterprise network. We had several hundred participants in that webinar. Next week we will have a similar webinar with the Restaurants Association of Ireland and its members throughout the country. We will continue that programme. That is how we are engaging with the bulk of the smaller debts in the warehouse.
On instalment arrangements, as of the end of December, 2,116 customers in the warehouse had entered into a phased payment arrangement for their debt. The total debt involved in those phased payment arrangements is €158 million.