Revenue crack down on shops etc?

[slx]

I was just watching the 6.1 news and apparently The Revenue Commissioners will be doing 'whole street visits' where they randomly raid businesses along an entire street.

I can understand the need to deal with tax evasion, but to me this is sounds heavy handed and makes me feel like that just because I have a small business that I'm going being treated like a potential criminal.

I pay all my taxes, and I find this kind 'flash audit' stuff pretty damn annoying.

I am increasingly disliking this country, it's one extreme to the other.

We seem to be gone from ultra liberal 'light touch' ridiculous regulation, to a new hostile approach.

I increasingly feel like winding up my business and emigrating to a country which actually has some sense. So, the Banana Kingdom (UK) and that other great Banana Republic, the USA are struck off my list too!

RTÉ News: 2008 tax revenue €8bn below estimate

[yehbut_nobut]

On the other hand, if it's a street with branches of Anglo, Irish Nationwide, and a Fianna Fail office or two (St Luke's anyone?), I wouldn't complain much.

[turdsl]

They should all be made pay their taxes just like those in the public saervice.

[slx]

On the other hand, if it's a street with branches of Anglo, Irish Nationwide, and a Fianna Fail office or two (St Luke's anyone?), I wouldn't complain much.

No, they'll just raid and intimidate small businesses to extract the cash to hand it over to Anglo, AIB, Irish Nationwide, BOI etc etc..

We might as well have handed the country over to the mafia, at least they're honest about being crooks!

FF's cronies hide behind a mask of legitimacy.

[Benz]

I was just watching the 6.1 news and apparently The Revenue Commissioners will be doing 'whole street visits' where they randomly raid businesses along an entire street.

I can understand the need to deal with tax evasion, but to me this is sounds heavy handed and makes me feel like that just because I have a small business that I'm going being treated like a potential criminal.

I pay all my taxes, and I find this kind 'flash audit' stuff pretty damn annoying.

I am increasingly disliking this country, it's one extreme to the other.

We seem to be gone from ultra liberal 'light touch' ridiculous regulation, to a new hostile approach.

I increasingly feel like winding up my business and emigrating to a country which actually has some sense. So, the Banana Kingdom (UK) and that other great Banana Republic, the USA are struck off my list too!

RTÉ News: 2008 tax revenue €8bn below estimate

This is exactly the attitude that allowed Seany Fitz to see nothing wrong in manipulating his personal loan book.

The Revenue have to do what the Revenue have to do.

No one welcomes a Revenue audit. Believe me, I know from first hand experience. But if everyone and every business in the State was fully tax compliant then the tax burden would be lower for everyone.

I think they are right to do this. Think about it, I've never had a receipt from a barber shop. The money goes straight into the till with a "thanks very much". Do you honestly believe that all of that income is declared? I don't.

Taxi drivers are the same. A bloke I know told me that he declares 50% of what he earns as a taxi driver. That's just wrong.

[Digout]

Did the same news programme cover the comment McGuinness made about the government?

[slx]

This is exactly the attitude that allowed Seany Fitz to see nothing wrong in manipulating his personal loan book.

The Revenue have to do what the Revenue have to do.

No one welcomes a Revenue audit. Believe me, I know from first hand experience. But if everyone and every business in the State was fully tax compliant then the tax burden would be lower for everyone.

I think they are right to do this. Think about it, I've never had a receipt from a barber shop. The money goes straight into the till with a "thanks very much". Do you honestly believe that all of that income is declared? I don't.

Taxi drivers are the same. A bloke I know told me that he declares 50% of what he earns as a taxi driver. That's just wrong.

No, this is not the exact same attitude.

If a business is compliant with Revenue rules and is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it should not have to put up with Revenue officers raiding the place at random.

Seany Fitz's business was grossly non-compliant with the law and the Revenue and Regulators stayed well away and didn't do what they were supposed to be doing at all.

A properly regulated system doesn't need random scary raids. It needs proper on-going regulation.

[Trans-Siberian]

They should start by targeting all those Eastern European shops and Asian food stores.

Surely they would uncover tax evasion there. Plenty of under the counter cigarettes and vodka with no duty at all paid. Handy getting it in to the country in truck loads of tripe and that stuff they sell in Jars that looks like something you would see on a shelf in a medical lab.

And they are renowned for the under the counter porn!

[cactusflower]

The Revenue is desperate to get money in. Receipts are dropping like a stone. We wrote to them two months back to reduce our VAT direct debit, as our volume of business (surprise) is reduced, and they have ignored- they just keep taking the dosh. They will chase people and find the expected tax is not there to be collected. The way a lot of businesses are now, getting caught on a minor infringment, interpretation or a mistake would be enough to make them go under.
No more tax to be collected on them then.

[cactusflower]

They should start by targeting all those Eastern European shops and Asian food stores.

Surely they would uncover tax evasion there. Plenty of under the counter cigarettes and vodka with no duty at all paid. Handy getting it in to the country in truck loads of tripe and that stuff they sell in Jars that looks like something you would see on a shelf in a medical lab.

And they are renowned for the under the counter porn!

Have you any evidence of this, or are you making it up as you go along ?