Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not a member of the committee and thank the Chairman for allowing me the opportunity to ask some questions.

Does the Commissioner accept that the 12.5% profits tax was applied to all manufacturing in Ireland by the company concerned? All the public commentary claimed Apple had paid no tax or a tax rate of 0.005%. It was claimed this was done by amalgamating the total earnings of the company throughout Europe and other non-European countries and attributing them to Ireland.