Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 September 2018

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

World Development Report 2019: Discussion

2:00 pm

Photo of Gerry HorkanGerry Horkan (Fianna Fail)
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From our perspective, if it is €2.2 billion across the whole of the EU and we are currently collecting about €8 billion in Ireland, it would still be a drop in the ocean in terms of what is available. Has Dr. Djankov done any estimate as to how much global taxation is potentially out there that is not collected? If it was taxed even at a medium-sized rate of 15% or so globally - I am not talking about Ireland's entitlement to it - how much is out there?