Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition

12:30 pm

Ms Margrethe Vestager:

One does not compare with Apple because the starting point is that there is selectivity due to the fact that we are dealing with tax rulings. The neighbouring company cannot use the tax rulings Apple has got. That company cannot ask for a copy and ask to do it the same way because it is specific. That is why it is a tax ruling. The reason for going to other rulings is to understand whether this is the average way of using tax rulings or whether there are different ways of doing it. We have found there are different ways of doing it.

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