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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is Ms Donaghy in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the Department of Finance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: How can the extra four staff be recruited?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Has the Department factored into that process the fact that if Revenue were to put in a review system. as happens in social welfare. it might prevent cases arising? We got a briefing note from a body other than the Tax Appeals Commission showing there has been an almost exponential increase in the number of cases. In 2012, the figure was 247 but this increased to 356 in 2013, 498 in 2014...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: We do not want to give the TAC only what is required from now until Christmas. My main criticism is that, given the importance of the issue, the new system established has not been on the scale required to allow it to be up and running. It seems the approach has been one of allowing the Department to work it out in that it will provide two commissioners and four staff and then increase...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Did the Revenue transfer the cases to the TAC or was it the taxpayers who transferred the cases?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Was that a new process whereby the Revenue could dump some of its old cases over to the TAC?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Did the TAC engage with each of those taxpayers and write to them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Are they all happy to engage with the TAC or did many withdraw their cases?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Did that give Revenue the opportunity to clear out some of its difficult cases? We will ask Revenue officials that question after dinner.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: I know responses have been given but we will ask the commission to give us a detailed note on the topic. There is probably more information available. As the other members of the committee are not here, we would like to have that information on record. When we are reaching a view on the issue we want to be able to collate all the information. Does the commission get a recruitment agency...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: The commission only has sanction for a temporary commissioner. Did Ms Donaghy say there was sanction given for five?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is that different?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: I do not understand the witnesses saying there was sanction for five and only one came in while at the same time saying the Tax Appeals Commission has no more sanctions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: I do not understand this. What did I miss?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Why are they not being recruited now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am lost.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am lost in terms of who recruits.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Minister is willing to appoint four extra commissioners.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is the Department of Finance but does the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have a role in this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: They are separate.