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- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Guys have got stuff stuffed away so that nobody can see it. It does not look as if they are doing it for an innocent reason. It looks pretty like evasion. Does it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Sorry it is a prima faciecase for evasion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: But you see what it looks like. It is pretty obvious that if these things are happening there is a prima faciecase for tax evasion. I am not saying it is in every case but it looks very like it. When one sees people prosecuted for very small amounts of tax evasion in this country compared with these people and other people here getting settlements which appear to be reasonably generous...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Could the witness give us an idea of the source of the funds for a typical tax Ansbacher account holder?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Can I just finish now? May I say this to finish up? What Ms Feehily has said is very useful because it sadly contradicts a lot of what we have heard from the whistleblower. One can see how it can look from his point of view. Let me sum up by saying this. He sees a situation where his inquiries were closed down. He sees a situation where the Revenue was unresponsive, more than...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Did Revenue collect money from that particular file?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Does Ms Feehily believe it was good that the authorised officer was pulled off the case in 2004?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Why not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Was he not producing some very useful information?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: I am not asking Ms Feehily to comment on that at all. I am just saying that he produced stuff for the Revenue Commissioners, for which she paid him a great deal of tribute, but he was pulled off that. Surely if he was doing a good job, Ms Feehily had some response that this was stopped?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Essentially, it did not make any difference to Ms Feehily whether he was pulled off or not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: I do not quite understand that. He was a senior civil servant doing a very good job, which Ms Feehily acknowledged, and he was suddenly pulled off that job. He was giving the Revenue Commissioners information all the time which they are following up and collecting moneys as a result. I will put the question this way. Was Ms Feehily surprised? Would it not have been better for Revenue if...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: So he was redundant at that stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: On the 763-page report, known as the “huge effort” report and referred to by the then Minister, he was disappointed that Revenue’s response was minimal after a short meeting. After that, there was the addendum report which was referred to by another Minister which contained more information. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: There is a senior civil servant sending the Revenue this but he is getting no response at all. He believes it contains some new information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Several reasons for no prosecutions were given, namely, the absence of original documents, some involved were foreign residents who were ineligible, as well as other reasons. It seems to me that Revenue should have at least taken a test case. There must have been some cases out of the 289 they could have taken. Were there no documents in all of the 289 cases?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Okay, we are dealing with 145 cases then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Was the ten-year condition introduced in 1995?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: The Ansbacher offences were committed from 1970 to 1992.