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Revenue launches information campaign for PAYE taxpayers

PPS numbers stolen by criminals used to make fraudulent pandemic welfare claims Over 20 gardaí are working to stop the fraud. By Garreth MacNamee Thursday 11 Mar 2021, 6:15 AM Mar 11th 2021, 6:15 AM 22,708 Views 12 Comments Image: Shutterstock/Syda Productions Image: Shutterstock/Syda Productions MEMBERS OF THE public are having their PPS numbers stolen to facilitate pandemic payment fraud, it has emerged. The Department of Social Protect...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Businesses and communities are dealing with many COVID-19 related issues that are causing severe business disruption.  The Irish government has been swift to introduce new measures to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on business. No doubt, further measures will be introduced in due course. Revenue has acknowledged that "tax payment difficulties are an inevitable impact of the COVID-19 pandemic" and has advised taxpayers to file tax returns and pay tax liabilities "if at all possible". B...

EXPLAINER: Will you be getting a tax bill or a refund from Revenue due to Covid payments Reporter: 15 Jan 2021 ');  '); Revenue has published provisional statistics in relation to the preliminary end of year tax position for all PAYE taxpayers for the year 2020 It reveals that 43% had a balanced position, meaning they paid the right amount of tax while 30% overpaid tax and/or USC totalling €436m but 27% underpaid tax and/or USC totalling €458m. According to Revenue, provisional data also indicates that over 706,000 taxpayers are in a refund position. For those PAYE taxpayers that were ...

Revenue has appealed to people who are trying to access their preliminary end of year statement to be patient, after some users reported that its online system had slowed to a crawl. Revenue Assistant Secretary in the Personal Taxes Division, Declan Rigney, said the volume of users attempting to access the Revenue Online System was causing the delays. He added that this is not an issue that there is a deadline on and people should remember that they can access the information over the weekend or next week it they cannot access it today. In a post on Twitter, Revenue said it was aware of inter...