Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 November 2017

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

Review of Ireland's Corporation Tax Code: Discussion

7:15 pm

Mr. Seamus Coffey:

There were a number of caveats that offered some leeway in that. The year 2020 is when the current BEPS project is supposed to reach its conclusion. That is when the OECD will try to assess the impact of it and see if they have achieved their goals. At that point, we may see the move to a BEPS II, that is, a different project that tries to address further some of the problems that have arisen. One of the unintended winners of the currently ongoing BEPS process is Ireland. The level shift in corporation tax that we have seen could perhaps be attributed to some of the proposals that came out of the BEPS project. Companies set themselves up in a different fashion to pay more tax in Ireland. Again, this concerns changing the location where tax is paid. If there is a subsequent change to the rules, maybe-----

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