Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The Revenue Commissioners advise me that in line with best practice elsewhere, they increasingly apply a risk focus to their operational activities. In this instance, their research indicates that the tax risk is largely related to the higher value policies. As a result, their initial focus is on investments which in aggregate exceed €20,000. The people who had small amounts to whom the Deputy referred will not be the focus of this investigation, at least in the first instance.

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