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:
I know the Senator's introductory remark was to wonder if there was any point in asking me these questions because, again, I am constrained in what I can say. There is a whole raft of stuff that could be read out in the case that is being put by the Commission, that the Senator did not read out the fully. I cannot go into the detail of the opinion and how it was arrived at apart from going back to what I said before. What we were dealing with was calculating and attributing the branch profits and coming up with the tax on that. The Senator said, and I take it as a colloquial statement, that Revenue hounds indigenous companies. We do not hound anybody.
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