Revenue Commissioners’ haul from tax probes passes €2bn landmark

AT the end of August the Revenue Commissioners’ take from various tax investigations has shot through the €2 billion barrier.

New figures reveal that by then, the total tax from various investigations ranging from bogus non-resident accounts to investigations into offshore assets have yielded €2.06bn.

That represents a jump in returns of €385 million on the €1.68bn recovered when Revenue last published figures at the end of May 2005.