Josephine is snaring the tax dodgers and she has the figures to prove it

HERE’S an arresting sentence (possibly in more ways than one): “Our fundamental aim, in all that we do, is to make it easy for people who want to do business with us and to make it difficult for those who don’t.”

That was in a press release issued by Josephine Feehily the other day. Josephine (if I may call her that, never having met the woman) is, in case you don’t know, chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, and she said the above in the context of issuing the Revenue’s annual report for 2007.

Does that sentence, and the report itself, mean what I hope it means? Does it mean we are at last on the way to becoming a tax-compliant culture?