Revenue publishes headline results for 2025

Last week, Revenue published preliminary results for 2025, including details of tax and duty collections, services delivered to customers, compliance timeliness, and outcomes from various compliance and enforcement initiatives. Most notably, in 2025 Revenue collected more than €106 billion in taxes and duties, along with over €34 billion collected on behalf of other government departments and agencies.

In the press release accompanying the publication of the results, Revenue’s Chairman, Niall Cody, recognised the ongoing commitment of taxpayers and tax practitioners in meeting their obligations and achieving consistently strong, timely compliance rates with voluntary compliance delivering rates of 99 percent for large and medium cases and 92 percent across all other cases.

The results show that Revenue completed 291,616 audit and compliance interventions during 2025 which yielded €734 million. A total of 189 tax avoidance cases were settled during the year resulting in an additional €41.7million collected on behalf of the public. Revenue is currently challenging 130 tax avoidance cases, relating to 27 transactions with 96 appeals ongoing.

Readers should also be aware of the ongoing disclosure opportunity for worker arrangements which may need to have been reclassified following the Supreme Court decision in Karshan. The deadline for such disclosure is 30 January 2026 by which employers can regularise genuine cases of employee misclassification for 2024 and 2025 without incurring penalties or interest.

Revenue has also advised taxpayers that 30 January 2026 is the closing date for the public consultation on the modernisation of withholding taxes, including Professional Services Withholding Tax, Relevant Contracts Tax, and expansion to the platform economy. Revenue has advised that you can complete the survey without inputting any identifying details simply by progressing to the next page. However, to the extent that you wish to engage with Revenue directly in the process, you may wish to include such identifying information.