Revenue Contractor's Project and Appeal Commissioners

[brenbrady]

Anyone aware of any cases gone before the appeal commissioners? Speaking to a few accountants and tax practitioners who seem to be taking revenue's interpretation lying down rather than requesting a assessment be raised and then challenged.
In some cases revenue appear to be raising "guestimates" and then trying to settle, anyone else dealt with this?

 

[mandelbrot]

What do you mean by guesstimates? Surely they're based on something? Maybe you could give an example from your experience? Revenue don't really have an alternative in a lot of these cases but to go to assessment after a certain amount of time at an impasse - if the inspector believes there's liability and it can't be agreed, and there's no further information forthcoming.

As long as they can demonstrate a rationale for the assessment the onus will be on the taxpayer at appeal to prove the revenue assessment wrong. If the taxpayer or the agent has played silly buggers during the audit in terms of engaging with revenue and providing information/clarifications sought, they might find the appeal commissioners not overly sympathetic. We'll have to wait and see.

 

[mandelbrot]

Sorry, I forgot to add, I'm not sure whether your problem is with their interpretation, or the basis on which they calculate assessments in these cases, or both?

 

[brenbrady]

Sorry, I forgot to add, I'm not sure whether your problem is with their interpretation, or the basis on which they calculate assessments in these cases, or both?

What I was hoping to find out was whether anyone has taken one of these cases to the appeal commissioners and what the outcome was?

 

[mandelbrot]

I haven't heard of one - I'm pretty sure once there is a determined case, in whoever's favour, the word will get around very quickly!

 

[dublin66]

There was one accountant in the Sunday Business Post who was claiming to have brought case(s) to the Appeal Commissioners on the topic and won. I would say it was about six months ago.