Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There would be outrage if any other taxpayer was treated in the same way as the members of the farming community have been treated. They are tax compliant. They had professional accountants doing their books for them and they made their returns in a perfectly honest and open way but now Revenue is retrospectively going back and changing the rules. Revenue is doing the one thing we were always told in life that one cannot do, namely, moving the goalposts in the middle of the game. That is what has been done to those people. I believe it is wrong and that it should be proven to be wrong. If a person driving a bus or taxi or doing work in any walk of life made his or her returns and he or she was then told that Revenue was changing the rules, there would be outrage. We cannot treat farmers in that way. It is wrong and the Minister should intervene.

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