Written answers

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Department of Finance

Revenue Commissioners Investigations

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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64. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to investigate the serious tax evasion by a number of citizens who held accounts in the Swiss HSBC thereby evading their tax responsibilities; the number of prosecutions that have been made for tax evasion yearly since 2009. [9537/15]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Details of the investigation undertaken by the Revenue Commissioners in relation to accounts held with HSBC Bank, Geneva were given in my reply to the Deputy's Questions Nos. 79 to 81, inclusive, of 25 February 2015. This investigation has led to three prosecutions and convictions for tax-related offences, and a further case remains under investigation.

The numbers of convictions for offences related to matters falling within the remit of the Revenue Commissioners, in each year since 2009, are set out in the following table.

Nature of Offence

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Serious Tax/Duty Evasion 15

13

30

50

35

27

Other tax cases9

4

16

29

5

12
Cigarette Smuggling

140

97

95

50

46

53

Cigarette Selling

19

40

53

60

41

49

Alcohol Smuggling

11

26

7

4

2

2

Counterfeit Spirits

8

6

2

7

5

7

Commercial Oil

6

4

2

1

2

4

Marked Mineral Oil

246

233

224

211

228

283

Vehicle Registration Tax 18

18

20

21

8

13

Excise Licences

87

83

94

155

112

81

Obstruction-

1

-

-

-

-

Other Smuggling

-

1

-

-

-

-

Non-filing of Returns1,087

1,223

1,224

1,049

811

696

Total

1,646

1,749

1,767

1,637

1,295

1,227

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