€418m in refunds paid out to taxpayers

REVENUE paid out a total of €418 million in refunds to 617,000 PAYE taxpayers last year.

Senior officials appeared before the Oireachtas yesterday to defend against criticisms that Revenue was not doing enough to tackle underclaiming of allowances and reliefs by taxpayers.

The figures released show the average payout was €624 per tax payer in 2006.

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