Revenue Commissioners & Tax Appeals Commission due before PAC

The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

•    Comptroller & Auditor General Report 2016 Chapter 9: Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
•    Appropriation Accounts 2016 Vote 10: Tax Appeals Commission
Representatives from the Tax Appeals Commission

•    (approx. 2.30pm) Comptroller & Auditor General Report 2016 Chapter 21: Tax Debt and Write Outs
•    Comptroller & Auditor General Report 2016 Chapter 22: Allocation of Encashment and Film Withholding Taxes
•    Appropriation Accounts 2016 Vote 9: Office of the Revenue Commissioners
•    The Revenue Account 2016 and 2017
Representatives from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners

Speaking ahead of the meeting, PAC Chair, Seán Fleming TD, said today, “We will be engaging with the Tax Appeals Commission in our first session tomorrow. The Tax Appeals Commission was established in 2016 as an independent statutory body, tasked with providing an appeals process in relation to the hearing and adjudication of tax case disputes. The PAC has concerns about the massive backlog of cases in the Commission and the amounts of tax involved.”
Tomorrow the Committee will engage with the Revenue Commissioners and will be asking them to explain why they have yet to fully implement a number of recommendations made by the C&AG in 2015 regarding the recording of appeals in its record systems and the development of more comprehensive debt management performance indicators.”
“The Committee will ask Revenue to comment on the C&AG’s conclusion that over one quarter of debt classified as collectable was subject to neither payment agreements nor enforcement proceedings even though €271m or 41% of this debt was over one year old. It is important that we find out their reasons for why payment agreements had not been concluded or enforcement proceedings commenced.”
The meeting will start at 9am in Committee Room 3, Leinster House.

Committee proceedings can be viewed live here: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-tv/cr3-live/