Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation

Reform of Global System of Corporation Tax: EU Commission and KPMG

3:50 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have question for Mr. Lynch that stems from his paper about the boardroom and tax planning. I am sure Mr. Lynch was the partner in KPMG who wrote it. He talked about the morality of tax planning, how it has become fashionable to talk about aggressive tax planning and morals and how we should not consider tax and morals because we get into trouble and that we should just look at the law. Is that the view of Mr. Lynch? That goes to the core of the matter. He talked about what is fair. What is fair if we are not talking about morals? Should we just implement the letter of the law, which is what many of the bankers did? We can look at the mess they got us into. Should we not have some morality in respect of tax planning or what Mr. Lynch does not like to call aggressive tax planning?

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