Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 July 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Matthew McGann:

I might have to follow up. We had an estimate of €2 billion overall cost from the base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, process. That is a relatively long-standing estimate from an original tool that the OECD produced and distributed to member states for estimating their costs a couple of years ago. The process or the negotiations have gone through many changes and they are dynamic. We are just not in a position, given the ever-evolving nature of the negotiations, to update that figure yet. The Deputy is correct that that figure is built into the corporation tax projections out the line. I think, subject to correction, it will hit in 2025 now. The anticipation is that even if the pillars were in place for 2024, the actual impact on revenues would only occur in 2025.