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.