Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 256: To ask the Minister for Finance if flights home by Irish tax exiles though Dublin Airport's private aircraft terminal are being monitored by the Revenue Commissioners. [27713/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissions that in the context of implementing import controls, Revenue's Customs Service monitors all flights and passengers, including passengers in private aircraft, coming into the country through Dublin Airport. This monitoring is done on the basis of risk analysis.

In relation to the monitoring by Revenue of days spent in Ireland by individuals with an Irish domicile who claim non-resident status for tax purposes, the High Wealth Individual's Unit of Revenue's Large Cases Division have monitored a number of such cases, as part of their 2005 audit programme, for compliance with the statutory residence rules. I am advised that part of that exercise involved checking certain data available to Revenue in relation to the movements of private aircraft.