Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance the corporation tax paid by multinational corporations in this State in each year since 2000 inclusive. [8891/07]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that statistics on the amount of corporation tax paid by multinational corporations are not separately available.

However, data can be derived from corporation tax returns on the percentage of corporation tax attributable to companies taxed wholly or partly at the reduced rate of 10 per cent, and including the tax of IFSC companies at both the 10 per cent rate and the standard rate of 121⁄2% which came into effect on 1 January 2003. Many of these companies could be classed as multinational corporations. This information, in respect of accounting periods ending between 1 April, 1999 and 31 December, 2004, the latest available, is as set out in the following table.

These figures relate to the total tax liability of companies which qualify for the reduced rate of 10 per cent on some or all of their profits.