Results 21,121-21,140 of 23,109 for speaker:Paddy Burke
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Costs of Business Insurance: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Mr. Cribben is putting the blame fairly and squarely on the Department of Finance and particularly on the Central Bank, which is now allowing competition in terms of quoting for the trade or placing itself in an area of the country to allow much more competition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Costs of Business Insurance: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: We asked similar questions of the Central Bank representatives when they were before this committee-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Costs of Business Insurance: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: We might be able to put-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Costs of Business Insurance: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: -----some questions to him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the delegation. Do I understand correctly that there will be a one-stop shop in every country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: It will just be for the large companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Who is going to police this all over Europe? A company that is paying PAYE and PRSI in a country with low wages might bring its sales team to a country with a low corporation tax rate. How will it all be policed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: I assume the various regional governments in countries like Germany and Belgium have differing taxation systems. How would this proposal operate in such countries? Would there be a one-stop shop in each region or would there be a one-stop shop for the whole country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: I presume Revenue carries out audits on small companies on a percentage basis. How often are audits carried out on large corporations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Details are often published of small companies that have been fined on foot of audits that were carried out, but larger corporations never seem to be subjected to audits and fines. I am sure it happens. Does it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Under the proposed system who would authorise an audit to be carried out on a large corporation or a small corporation under €750 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Is it the case there are two competent authorities to say that an audit should be carried out on a particular company?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: All right. Will Ms Levey give examples of existing double taxation in the European Union?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Under this system would there be no case of double taxation in the EU?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: CCCTB.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: If the implementation were to run smoothly what is the timeframe for the implementation of CCCBT across Europe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Has there been an urgency about in the past year? Has it gathered pace?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: If a country wants to change its corporation tax - I am sure there are areas in a country that might want to have a different corporation tax in a disadvantaged area - how difficult will it be for them to do that under this new system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Would there be an advantage for a company to be below threshold as well? When they are getting close to €750 million, could there be an advantage in that company staying below the threshold of €750 million? They could close down production to stay below the €750 million for that year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Thank you.