Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

Does the Minister have figures available as to the sums recovered as a result of special investigations by the Revenue Commissioners in 2006 into the construction industry? With regard to the Minister's role in asking the Revenue Commissioners to undertake particular special investigations, section 881 of the Taxes Consolidation Act makes it a crime to evade taxes knowingly and this has a retrospective application. The Minister recently closed a number of loopholes with regard to stamp duties, one relating to the use of shelf companies and another relating to setting up third parties in the sale of properties. Is it not in order that special investigations should be taken into these areas to see how much was lost to the State by allowing these evasion measures to take place?

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