Revenue may face tax files grilling by an Oireachtas committee

The Revenue Commissioners may have to appear before an Oireachtas committee and answer questions on tax-avoidance revelations about offshore accounts used by Bono, banks, and others.

The call for authorities to probe the Paradise Papers leaks comes as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was forced to defend Ireland’s actions. He said closing off loopholes was a game of cat and mouse.

Revelations that tech giant Apple shifted its tax-avoidance schemes to the island of Jersey after a clampdown in Ireland on loopholes has again turned up the heat on tax arrangements here.