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

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

I am challenging inaccuracies that the Minister has put before the committee. We have established one in the Minister's assessment that the Commission is asking us to tax all worldwide profits. We understand now that it is not the case and the statement has been debunked. I am challenging the Minister's comment to the committee that it is not appropriate that we would be asked to collect tax for sales that happen in other jurisdictions. I am not talking about the Commission. It is up to the Commission to decide about state aid. I want the Minister to recognise that the economic rights for the intellectual properties for all Apple products sold outside the Americas rest in an Irish company. That company, in which Apple has structured those economic rights, is not tax-resident in this State. Let us establish some facts. Is that not the facts of the matter?

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.