Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion
4:00 pm
Professor Philip Lane:
Sure. To an extent these assets remain in Ireland. My bet is they will continue to generate recorded profits and, therefore, some degree of corporate tax revenue. There is a benefit to having these international capital assets here.
It should involve higher corporate tax payments, there is no doubt about that. The actual corporate tax revenues are included in GNI* so we allow for that benefit in this calculation.