Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Professor Michael McMahon:

In answer to the Deputy's first question, I point out as to his reference to the volatility of tax, in particular corporate tax, we raised in the report that this tax has in many ways been volatile and it is difficult to know what is going on. The attraction and the payment of large amounts of corporate tax should in some ways be seen as a good thing.