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Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and education, which we need so badly. The report would examine how a minimum effective tax rate of 12.5% should be imposed. It is currently not being imposed and this allows corporations like Apple to pay less than 1% in tax on billions of euro in profit. The average tax rate is not the 12.5% claimed by the Government but approximately 4%. If we had a minimum effective corporate tax...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in order to facilitate tax avoidance by these corporations. These are a select group. The European Union found Ireland guilty of state aid but I have no doubt that it was not only in respect of Apple. It was the company which was exposed but more cases will follow. A select group of corporations benefitted from this. They were corporations which had the ear of Ministers for Finance,...

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not a word from the Taoiseach when he met Mr. Tim Cook recently in the United States about the aggressive tax avoidance of Apple.

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are probably going to be investigated by the EU for a second time. This will be on top of the investigation into the €13 billion tax dodged by Apple in the double Irish scam. Commissioner Vestager is discussing investigating-----

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----what happened, what Deputy Noonan did in 2014 to change the tax code and the restructuring of Apple's tax arrangements as regards the Isle of Man. The Government will not even take the €13 billion from Apple and put it into an escrow account as it has been ordered to do by the EU. The EU is taking infringement proceedings over our failure to ratify the anti-money laundering...

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the beneficial ownership of deposits. The figures are stunning. After this tax break was introduced by Deputy Noonan benefitting Apple and other corporations, tax breaks on intangible assets increased from €2.6 billion to €28 billion in one year.

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As long as Apple agrees.

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Paradise Papers, so-called, or what I think should more accurately be described as the parasite papers, reveal a nexus of elite, super-wealthy individuals, banks and corporations, such as Apple, stashing away countless billions of euro in offshore bank accounts, in places like Jersey in the Channel Islands, in order to hide those billions from the taxman here in this country, and robbing...

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it a coincidence that Deputy Enda Kenny met the CEO of Apple in January of 2014 at the same time that outrage was being expressed and pressure was coming on the issue of the double Irish? Then, lo and behold, in the budget of October a new loophole was opened up in the tax code to benefit Apple and other corporations like it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...next few weeks and prior to the next European Council. At least at a rhetorical level, Europe is expressing deep concern about our implication in all of this. Whatever may be said about our role, Apple is involved in massive tax avoidance. The Government might say it is nothing to do with us and we are transparent etc., but nobody else thinks that. With the Paradise Papers we have the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...In the Taoiseach's discussions on Digital Europe, to what extent is he now concerned that Europe and the European Commissioner are looking into a possible second instance of Irish state aid to Apple in terms of the intangible allowances which led to a massive write-off of tax liability during the period 2014-2015, where allowances jumped, benefiting a very small number of companies? In...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...play out. I suspect that is because the then Minister, Deputy Noonan, said it was guaranteed and that the Government would not do anything. It is a little like what I suspect also happened with Apple – we will move on to that discussion later. In those critical years of 2013 and 2014, a great deal of running around was done by the then Minister. He was talking to big...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everything about the Apple situation, including the changes made in the budget by the former Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, in 2014, stinks to high heaven. Frankly, it stretches credibility that this happened at a time when new political forces had come into this Dáil. In 2012 and 2013, Deputy Pearse Doherty and I raised at the then Joint Committee on Finance, Public...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is very suspicious, yet again. We have already been told we should have collected €13 billion of tax that we did not collect. The Government has still not taken that money and the interest off Apple and put it in an escrow account. As soon as there was movement on that particular tax avoidance strategy, lo and behold, we made changes which ensure Apple does not pay a single cent...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that they are robbing this country of tax revenues that we should be getting. They are also robbing people all around the world. All of the tax and global justice groups say this kind of behaviour that Apple, Facebook and Google are engaging in is the major contributory factor to growing global inequality, poverty and deprivation. These people are robbing us blind in a deliberate, naked...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...already discussed at some length about the changes made to the capital allowances allowed on intangible assets in 2014 and the enormous tax benefits they conferred on a small number of companies, notably Apple among others. We have made the point. To paraphrase the Minister, he said the Government does not gear its tax policy around any particular company. That is probably true because...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to the bigger picture of the whole array of allowances, deductions and reliefs available to corporations. It is worth saying the same groups we have just talked about are the major beneficiaries of this: the Apples, Googles and Facebooks and probably the pharmaceutical companies and so on. A relatively small number of companies benefit from this vast array of allowances, deductions and...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., Meath and Clare. This is a shocking level of non-compliance with standards. While not all may be as bad as the horrific conditions that we saw on television, this is not a question of a few bad apples. This is chronic and endemic. Someone said that it is a pity that it had to take a "Prime Time Investigates" programme to wake us up and that is certainly true. I remember coming...

European Council: Statements (25 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of big multinational corporations. It is doing so to the extent that Ireland is now being threatened with legal action by the European Union over its failure to put the €13 billion owed to us by Apple into an escrow account pending the outcome of an appeal. That appeal might not even take place in view of the fact that the Government is backing up Apple and spending millions of...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...nurses and teachers and invest in our infrastructure. The Government refuses to tax those who have the money. This is summed up by the issue that has surfaced again in recent days relating to Apple and the €13 billion. It is really rather extraordinary. It is not simply that the Government does not want to collect the €13 billion, or €19 billion including...