Farmers with second job targeted by Revenue

PEOPLE who are farming, and have another occupation as well, are one of four sectors being targeted by the Revenue Commissioners for test auditing, according to Ms Josephine Feehily, chairman of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners.

She told the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts that they have been auditing a number of cases in the freight transport by road, letting of property, “mixed farming”, and the security sectors since 2009.

“Different regions are taking a sector each and they will audit a number of cases and we will see what lessons can be learned, not just from the results of the audit, but we are asking them to document the behaviours they observed that led to the yield, if there is a yield. Those sectors would have been considered by our regions to be risky, based on their experience of conducting sectoral projects,” she told the Committee during a debate on Revenue’s computerised risk evaluation and profiling system, REAP, which is used to target cases for audit.