|
|
|
|
APPENDIX VI.OFFICE OF THE REVENUE COMMISSIONERS: (1) DISPOSAL OF FORFEITURES, AND (2) PAYMENT OF SEIZURE AWARDS.Cléireach, An Coiste um Chuntais Phoiblí. At the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on the 20th March, 1958, in connection with the Appropriation Account for the Office of the Revenue Commissioners for 1956/57 I undertook to furnish the following information:— (1) Subhead S.—Appropriations in Aid, Item (5)—Fines, forfeitures, law costs recovered, etc.—Breaches of revenue laws may involve liability to forfeiture of both monetary penalties and any goods concerned. When monetary penalties so forfeited are recovered they are accounted for under the heading “Fines, forfeitures, law costs recovered, etc.” When goods so forfeited are seized and sold the proceeds, after deduction of any amount falling to be treated as duty are accounted for under the heading “Proceeds of Customs sales (seizures, etc.).” (2) Extra Remuneration—Seizure rewards. Rewards paid to customs personnel in respect of seizures of smuggled goods are in all cases based on the value of the goods seized. Payment of the rewards is deferred until all other official action in relation to the seizures has been completed. The rewards are paid on a higher scale in cases where the detections have resulted in successful prosecution or the recovery of compromise penalties in lieu thereof than in other cases. (Signed) R. P. RICE, Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners. 20th June, 1958. |
||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
