Medical consultant claimed wage to child as expense

A medical consultant claimed, as an expense, wages to his child for website design services, the Revenue chairman has revealed.

Niall Cody was outlining the findings of a Revenue investigation into the tax affairs of medical consultants to the Public Accounts Committee yesterday.

Mr Cody told the committee that a total of €61m has been yielded by Revenue following a tax review of more than 800 medical consultants.