Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation
Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion
4:40 pm
Mr. Brian Keegan:
As Deputy Michael McGrath will know better than I, the Department of Finance provides an estimate of what a change will result in. At the time the change was made, they did not give a figure for it. As to whether it is going to make a difference, it is not. It is very much a reputational move. It is copper-fastening a notion that we do not tolerate egregious planning practices. It is worth making the point that the existing residence rules that were brought in in 1998-99 were designed to ensure that one could not benefit from our 12.5% rate unless one had a proper presence. This is a further development of that. Arguably, this is a refinement, had it been thought of, that could have been brought in in 1998-99.
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