Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2017

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

EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners

9:30 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

No. There is a transfer pricing audit function, which is based in our large cases section, that we are developing. We have been recruiting. I recently signed off on an order appointing five new assistant principals. That is a resource that we have developed and built since introducing the transfer pricing rules in the Finance Act 2011.

The competent authority, which is in Mr. O'Dea's division, deals with resolving international transfer pricing disputes with other administrations. I will refer to the 2015 budget. As part of the international tax package that the Minister put together, we were given sanction to beef up our competent authority significantly. At that point, we had one principal officer leading the negotiations with support on a part-time basis from our economists or the large cases division. The competent authority team now has a staff of eight - a principal officer, five assistant principals and two administrative officers - supported by the resources-----

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