The Irish Taxation Institute (ITI) has written to the Revenue Commissioners, urging the tax authority to ensure that problems with the Revenue Online System (ROS) for filing taxes have been addressed ahead of the 2004 deadline.
According to the ITI, nearly one in five of the 110,000 self employed and business taxpayers who filed using the ROS last year were sent incorrect assessments which did not take into account payments already made.
In a letter to the chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, Frank Daly, the ITI's deputy president, Frank Hussey argued that the November breakdown of the system had done "considerable harm...to the credibility of ROS".
He explained that:
"More often than not where this occurs, it is the practitioner who pays the price, not the client. The alternative is to lose the client, or be sued, or both."
He continued:
"It is incomprehensible to practitioners that having furnished all the information in electronic form, the resulting assessment from Revenue would be incorrect."
According to reports in the Irish media, the tax authority has issued strong assurances that there will not be a repeat performance of the fiasco this year.
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