Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition
12:30 pm
Ms Margrethe Vestager:
I do not have an opinion about it. If it is the law that the company is able to do that, I would not know. I think that it can be seen in some of Apple's announcements to the public over the years that the company has been well aware it had a tax arrangement that allowed it to pay less tax than the 12.5% of the Irish tax code.