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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: A division has been called in the Chamber. I propose we suspend the sitting. It is our intention to finish today's proceedings by 1 p.m. I think this division concerns the appointment of the new Minister.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The Deputy is on the right committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: We are resuming our discussion of corporation tax receipts, Chapter 20 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report. Deputy Connolly was in possession.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The Deputy is on time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Deputy, you are well over five minutes. Mr. Cody, can you send that on to the committee? You did not bring it with you today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: At what rate can it be offset?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The rate is 100%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: One could write off the full balance for taxation purposes in the year the intellectual property was onshored.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: To sum up I will ask a few questions, the first of which is for the Department of Finance. How will the sum of €13 billion or €15 billion impact on the State's balance sheet and how will it affect us under EU fiscal rules and in terms of national income and GDP?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Given that it is bespoke and we have never encountered it before, how come the Department has a ruling on the matter already?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: The State's name is on the account with that of somebody else.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I presume that there is a EUROSTAT rule. Somebody must have envisaged such a scenario, namely, that money in an escrow account would not come onto a state's balance sheet. Mr. McCarthy was very clear in his answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy should send it to us. It will not impact on GDP. We will not be told our that GDP has gone up by €13 billion out of nowhere.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: On double taxation agreements, there are lots of credits. People may have paid tax at a higher rate in other countries and that will reduce their liability here, or vice versa. Does Mr. Cody have figures to indicate the net flow into or out of Revenue in that regard? Obviously, there is loss of revenue in some cases, while in others we are probably receiving revenue under a double taxation...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Is there a net cost to Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Is Mr. Cody saying the cost of the research and development tax credit was somewhere near €700 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Therefore, those two items alone cost €1.5 billion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: What was the tax debit or, if one likes, the other half? There was a loss of income to Ireland as a result of that agreement. Were there gains for Ireland as a result of the double taxation agreements?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Seán Fleming: Okay. From a layman's point of view, Mr. Cody has just said the tax credit cost Ireland €900 million, or just short of €1 billion.