Not responsibility of Revenue to regulate bogus self-employment, says chairman

Niall Cody, Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, said "we are not tax agents". Picture: GARETH CHANEY /Collins

The head of the Revenue Commissioners has acknowledged that bogus self-employment is “absolutely” an issue for workers, but said that his body has no responsibility for regulating it.

Asked at a hearing of the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday morning re the trend, which sees people who work in effect directly for one company being treated as self-employed, whether he recognises the problem Niall Cody said: “Absolutely, but we are the tax agents.”