Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

Yes. It is having a distorting impact on the national accounts, but in the vast majority of cases we do not get any corporation tax. Essentially what happens is that there is an inversion. A company inverts in that its headquarters comes to Ireland, but where it actually undertakes its economic activity and makes its profit, and where it pays tax-----

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