Tax crackdown: End in sight for offshore tax amnesties

Revenue to use big data networks to catch tax dodgers

Niall Cody, chairman of the Revenue Commissioners Pic: Fergal Phillips

An end to so-called amnesties for offshore tax evaders, bolstered powers to secure confidential financial information and the increased use of data detection tools are among the major new measures being progressed by the Irish tax authority to stamp out evasion.

Niall Cody, chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, revealed the new hardline approach in a wide-ranging interview with The Sunday Business Post.

Cody revealed how the taxman was building up huge data banks ...