Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation
Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite
2:30 pm
Mr. Michael Taft:
The question was whether we are inadvertently or otherwise being used as a tax haven. It depends on the definition. Are we being used as a tax haven? Are we a conduit tax haven? Companies set up here are able, as part of the global avoidance network, to shift from one jurisdiction or economy through here to move on to another economy. We did not particularly address that matter but there are numerous examples. In fact, legal and accounting firms publish brochures aimed at the markets in continental European countries. They suggest companies come to Ireland-----