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REVENUE HAS PUBLISHED its annual report today showing an increase in revenue on last year with a total of €36.7 billion in net tax and duty receipts in 2012.
This was a 7 per cent increase on 2011 and contributed to what Revenue said was a “successful year” with it being the second successive increase in returns to the Exchequer since 2007.
The drop in debt available for collection by €137 million to €1.2 billion over all is a drop of 10.4 per cent and Revenue said: “The continuing trend in decreasing levels of debt available for collection in the last couple of years is very encouraging.”
Here are 8 other things we learned from Revenue’s 2012 annual report:
In a bid to tackle so-called cash in hand or shadow economy, Revenue carried out checks on what it termed ‘cash businesses’ last year including:
Revenue said that last year just over 9,000 audits were settled yielding a total of €359 million. It also for the first time reported PAYE (Pay As You Earn) compliance checks where 30,000 of these yielded a total of €23 million. Overall, compliance and audit checks yielded just under €500 million.
Taking data from the Department of Social Protection, the Revenue wrote to 150,000 pensioners last year and collected an additional €65 million in tax based on the processing of P35 information. Over €1 million was refunded to cases where too much tax was being paid while work in relation to arrears has yielded €11 million.
As well as targeting the evasion of excise duties on items like cigarettes and alcohol 2012 was a year in which Revenue focussed on fuel laundering and it managed to, in their words, detect and dismantle 11 oil laundries and seize a total of 1,113,142 litres of fuel.
In the last two years a total of 89 retail outlets trading in unlicensed fuel have been closed down.
Just over 8,100 seizures last year yielded 95.6 million cigarettes or 5,277 kilogrammes of tobacco with Revenue saying that “penetration of the cigarette market by illicit products is being contained”.
Revenue described its offshore project as “still very active” and it yielded over €18 million from its investigation into the use of offshore accounts and structures.
Drugs with a street value of €49.3 million were seized last year along with €1.2 million of cash which was suspected as representing the proceeds of crime or was intended for use by criminals.
There was a 36 per cent increase in payments made via Revenue’s Online Service (ROS) last year with the value of these payments going up by 12 per cent.
Over 578,000 transactions were processed through the PAYE Anytime service while Revenue introduced its Relevant Contracts Tax system at the beginning of last year, saving about 12 trees or one million sheets of paper in the process.
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Makes you cry. Govt body keeping secrets, from the public.
@micheal duff: fix the pipes with your billions instead of spending on useless things.
hello ??.. ah yes there is nobody home… too busy with with rights and speech.
@micheal duff: I wonder Buster do the people you steal their profile picture know you use them on this site with your multiple profiles?
@micheal duff: so basically Journal Investigates in conjunction with Irish Water need to build a case for water levies directly on households and needs to build evidence through consumer complaints of unsustainable infrastructure in order to build that case to Gov, for to make another push to further this agenda.
Why didn’t the TDs and councillors direct their constituents to make a direct complaint? In fairness, everyone should know to make a complaint to the responsible entity – TD/councillor should only be a last resort. €30 compensation is an absolute insult and doesn’t even cover the time to make & follow up on the complaint. The attempt to block the foi request was equally pathetic – how can a state/semi state body claim that reporting the truth might be a bad thing? This country has really gone downhill.
@Social Guy: because once elected that was not their problem. not once they even made a statement about all that. they were forming a big gvt and got and still busy with speech rights and look after themselves. MM love nothing else to lecture everyone on international politics but never cared about the people. neutrality is not a concern either for him
@Social Guy: that’s how “national” politics work in this country… The gombeen way: fix the potholes and attend funerals.
I even know of a foreign (European) national getting his local TD to contact his embassy in Dublin to expedite a passport renewal. Seriously?
@Social Guy: Agree, but would like to add, 1) TD’s & local councillors more than likely don’t/didn’t know about the €30 compensation scheme, 2) people are getting lazy. If they can get someone else to complain on their behalf, it make life easy for them. The time it took to send a letter/email, or indeed, make an appointment to see their local government representative, they would have had a communication sent of to the company.
Just more fffg bolicitics. People, please relise fffg are a failure. They don’t care. It’s not rocket science.
@Paul Gorry: If they were a failure and the people realised it, how are they now in government again? Must be that people voted for them.
@Eoin McCarthy: No shi,t sherlock.
@Eoin McCarthy: people of this country are its own worst enemy…
Irish Water does not have customers. It is a state-owned Dept. Very unusual article. Because it’s a state owned dept, surely going your local representative is the correct move?
@pat fogarty: It’s not a department. It is a private company with the state as its largest shareholder. Company number 530363 (CRO).
@Stephen Fitzgerald: yes you are correct for the most part. Except for the “the state is its largest shareholder” don’t want to not pick but I think is important for everyone to know.
This is copied directly from Irish waters website on corporate governence –
“The shareholders of Uisce Éireann are the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and, on that basis, Uisce Éireann is a state-owned entity.”
So, the ONLY shareholders in uisce eireann are state bodies.
Ireland needs its very own DOGE, I can just imagine what corruption would come to light.
@Pelagius Asturias: never going to happen unfortunately
Our water filtration company from Wexford has proven in a year long pilot in Canada to prevent the carcinogenic chemical THM from forming in potable water.
In 2017 a prime time report stated over 170,000 people in Ireland were drinking water Exceeding the 100U/gl WHO guidelines for THM
After 7 months of paperwork we were granted a Zoom call with Uisce Éireann.
We offered to run a free pilot on any water treatment plant that was failing THM guidelines.
We were told that our proven filtration system would not work on THM’s in Ireland ?
They would not be taken us up on the offer of a free trial ?
We have offered free trials to Uisce Éireann on manganese and iron removal from potable Water which we have a proven to have a 90% reduction using our filtration system.
No reply to date?
@Les Walsh: that’s just weird and needs investigation
and Who set up Irish Water? TD’s and Senators along with the President signing stealth tax legislation on already crippled taxpayers.
In other words, ‘we don’t want people to know how big a problem it is because then they will know how big a problem it is’. Honestly, is there a single thing the government does well?
ireland + pharmaceutical =Dark waters
How can you get compensation for something you don’t pay for
@Max: I’m afraid that’s the country we live in now, want everything for nothing and compo for everything
@Martin Kenny: Guess you are retired with a good pension and maybe have a bit of property?
@donal finn: no, but please explain your reasons for that assumption
@Max: exactly.
@Martin Kenny: well said.How people come up with these assumptions is beyond me.Even if you were retired on a big pension and had property what has that got to do with it.
@Max: it’s long been established that we do pay for it through general taxation including, strangely ill admit, car tax….where do you think their funding comes from, the magic money tree…
@Max: you are entitled a good standard of customer service , which is in their charter. If they fail they pay.
@Max: if they failed to deliver proper customer service they pay.
Customers
Journal ‘reporter’? That’s a laugh. Get a proof reader while you are at it. FFG mouthpiece.
Is our water save to Drink ? is the question I want answered. I started drinking water from a “spring well” that is running constantly for the past few months and just the other day at work, I decided to get water from the cooler. Well, could I taste the difference. I thought I was back in the swimming pool where I swallowed the water there. OMG, is this safe I said to myself. 1st person I went to was one of our colleagues who is pregnant. Told her to stop drinking this water immediately and gave her directions to get the spring water to drink in future.
SSE Airtricity gas and electricity should be next up for an investigation into their so called customer service.
30 euro…. not worth 15 of my time
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