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:
From PAYE workers. That figure is for up to the end of last week. It is probably close to 600,000 now. The environment has changed completely. The system is really easy to use. Some people have a concern that if they return something to us, they will end up owing us money.
Some people say you are better off leaving those lads alone. There is a four-year timeframe in which you can claim. Some people say they will do so every few years because the money will mean more if it is a lump sum. However, in the last few years we have radically changed how you claim. You can claim health expenses as you suffer and get the money back through your wages, but most people still claim at the end of the year because they end up with a few hundred euro.