Cyber scrutiny for tax evaders

SELF-employed people have to wake up to the reality that Revenue has become much more focused as a result of its newly ramped-up technology.

This follows recent comments by Revenue chairwoman, Josephine Feehily, who stressed future crackdowns on suspected tax evaders will target the self-employed and will be driven by the technology base Revenue has installed.

Taxpayers needed to understand the age of “being unlucky enough to be caught up in a random audit are at an end”, warned Tony McGinty, director of revenue audit at McAvoy & Associates.