Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

5:00 pm

Professor John McHale:

Yes. There are big risk factors. As the Deputy has rightly pointed out, it is possible in the current international political environment that there will be fairly substantial changes to US tax law. It is very hard to predict that, but it is certainly a risk that is out there. Putting all of that together, one would have to be concerned that there is as much of a chance of a substantial decrease as there is of a substantial increase.