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  • 29-04-2012 7:57am
    #1
    femur61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭


    I'm using Ned O Keefe as an example not that I am a vendetta against him but an example of the injustice we have in Ireland. Revenue seems to be able to prosecute and investigate thoroughly undeclared taxes in this country. I was talking to my sister in law who works in the revenue office and she said it is nearly bordering on embarrassing that she sees people struggling in businesses yet the office is hounding them. Whey do the elite in Ireland get away with fraud, who can well afford to pay their dues but yet the section who are trying to make ends meet are targeted?


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  • #2
    Welease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭Welease


    Wouldn't your sister be best placed to answer that question?


  • #3
    femur61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭femur61


    Sorry maybe I haven't explained my point very well. Basically it bothers me that you can an ordinary man (I know he committed fraud) can get six years for undeclared taxes on garlic. Ordinary tax payers are being hounded and yet it is OK for Bertie, O'Keefe and plenty more to take bribes, bankrupt the state and nothing is being done about. Seems very unfair to me.


  • #4
    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    In O'Keefe's case, a file has been sent to the DPP so it would be premature to say he "got away" with anything just yet although I do agree with your view regarding those in the upper echelons.
    Just as lawyers don't like prosecuting lawyers, or those who advocate huge salaries and bonuses for high roller businessmen are usually high roller businessmen, politicians don't like their counterparts being "outed".
    "There, but for the grace" and all that.


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