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- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Prior to 2009 when Revenue looked for those orders, how much money was recovered from people who were indulging themselves in tax evasion in Swiss banks?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Mr. Cody knows that there are buzz words such as "secrecy", which was used in the advertisement to which he alluded, and Swiss bank secrecy in particular.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: The advertisement is really saying in code, "Come and bury your money with us".
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: We all knew about the Swiss bank secrecy and we all knew that this was happening. What was Revenue doing before that? How much money has been lost to the Irish Revenue because Revenue was not particularly active in that particular area? It is clear that Revenue got great results from Jersey, the Isle of Man and other tax havens, which is what they are. It appears that with regard to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Did the Swiss banks co-operate with Revenue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: In no way at all. They are not part of any of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: They are not allowed to do so. Did they reply to Revenue's letters? Did Revenue write to them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Did Revenue get a reply?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: So the year 2010 was the big breakthrough, when Revenue got the information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: From where did the money that ended up in HSBC in Switzerland come?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I am talking about the money involved in tax evasion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I know there are confidentiality issues but there are many cases. What route was taken by the typical person who wanted to bury money in Switzerland? What did these people do? Whom did they telephone?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Just give an example.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Did any money move from Ireland to Switzerland? Mr. Cody has many cases. There are 360 cases.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I am only talking about tax evasion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Did they have it offshore already?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Was money transferred from Irish banks directly or did it all go from-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: No, I do not mean in those cases. In any cases where tax evasion was suspected was money transferred directly or did it go through a circuitous route?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: To Switzerland.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Can Mr. Cody say that no money under suspicion of tax evasion was moved from Irish banks in the Republic to HSBC in Switzerland? Can he say that never happened?