Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

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

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

2:00 pm

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance)
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That is not the witnesses' analysis so they can take it or not. How does the argument that Ireland is not a tax haven tally with the idea that if we come up with a common consolidated corporate tax base, FDI will drop by almost 5%? If corporations are not here to avoid paying taxes why, if we have a different way of allocating taxes across Europe and where they are paid, would FDI drop?