Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation

Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion

5:30 pm

Mr. Sorley McCaughey:

I must be careful not to step outside our mandate. We would hold that corporations pay a fair amount of tax in the country in which they operate reflective of the substantive activity they have in that jurisdiction. We would be concerned that this is not happening at the moment. The question of whether an additional 3% emergency levy would be an appropriate response to that is more of a domestic issue.