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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: 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.

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 committee has asked the Department to send us a note. Do we need to write separately to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform if we have a query on 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: Will Ms Donaghy try to make it comprehensive and cover the bases at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform? That is all I am asking.

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: Ms Donaghy will see the Official Report next week. Are there any final comments? I think we are finished. A division has been called in the Dáil.

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 expect it today. Mr. O'Mahony will understand what I am asking. I was amused looking at the last page of the annual report which refers to the customer service charter. With regard to contact by telephone, when the commission gets a new telephone number, the witnesses should let us know.

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 thank our witnesses from the Tax Appeals Commission and the Department of Finance.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 21 - Tax Debt and Write Outs
Chapter 22 - Dormant Accounts Fund
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2016 and 2017 Revenue Accounts (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are dealing with the 2016 annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, chapter 21, tax debt and write-outs, and chapter 22 which is entitled, Allocation of Encashment and Film Withholding Taxes. I hope some of the experts present will explain what it means in simple English. We will also be dealing with the 2016 Appropriation Accounts, Vote 9, Office of the Revenue...