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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: I have five quick questions on Apple, and then I will move on to other issues. To Mr. Hogan's knowledge, are rules set out for this sort of scenario in terms of the investment protocols?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: In these circumstances, the Commission has made a decision that requires the Department, Revenue and others taking €13.1 billion and holding it until such time as the legal side of the case has either been resolved or not resolved, as the case may be. Are there rules for that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Yes. We know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: There are no agreed rules.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Has the Department been engaging with the Commission on the establishment of rules for this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: No, I am specifically referring to investment rules. We have €13.1 billion in cash. We are hardly going to leave it sitting in a current account.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: It is not interested.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Mr. Hogan mentioned that the Department had been liaising with the Commission for the past 18 months or so since the decision was made, that the Department had been exchanging information with it and that the relationship was relatively good, yet the Commission has decided to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice, ECJ. Are politics involved in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Has the Department been getting reminder or "past due" letters?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: How would Mr. Hogan characterise the tone of those conversations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: As a result of the decision on this client of the Revenue Commissioners, which I am assuming is in the top 100 of its clients, has Revenue put in place audit structures to re-examine the matter? I do not doubt that Revenue was engaged by the Commission on ensuring that accurate corporation tax rates were paid, but has there been any internal or external overview to ensure that Mr. Cody, as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: I accept that. Broadly speaking, though.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: I accept Mr. Cody's point,-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: -----but it is hardly the basis-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: My question is more specific than that. As a result of the Commission's decision, has Revenue put in place any programme to re-examine the compliance of large companies and the payment of corporation tax?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Mr. Hogan mentioned that he feels it would not be appropriate for him to cite a cost associated with the work his Department has been undertaking for the past 18 months in the recoupment of the award - actually, I should say "the decision" - of the Commission. I accept that, but he can tell me how many personnel are assigned to this matter and whether they are working whole-time on it,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Mr. Hogan knows how many people he has under him-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: -----and how many weeks they have been working on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: It is not that granular.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: To condense it , would I be right in estimating there is a minimum of ten people working on the case?