Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
VAT Refunds to Unregistered Farmers: Revenue Commissioners
Mr. Chad Egan:
I do not believe there has been any change. As I am responsible for interpreting the refund order, I would know. Has there been any such change, I would have issued an instruction and it would have been published. I am very happy to say there has not been a change. Based on the statistics we generated, 96% of claims have been approved in the last three years. Our approval and rejection rates have been consistent. Nothing from our statistics or what we have looked at internally has indicated a change. The Senator has raised examples from 20 or 50 years ago. I cannot speak to those examples but I can say that when we looked at the statistics, the position has been very consistent.