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Former Finance Minister, Charlie McCreevy, reduced Irish corporate tax from 32% to 12.5% in the 1999 Finance Act, and whose 1997 Tax and Consolidation Act laid the framework for Ireland's BEPS tax tools. [1] Ireland's Corporate Tax System is a central component of Ireland's economy. In 2016–17, foreign firms paid 80% of Irish corporate tax ...
Irish employee tax rate (single and married) versus the OECD in 2017. [11] The OECD's 2018 Taxing Wages shows Ireland's employee tax on wages, which is the total tax (PAYE and EE–PRSI less SS Benefits) paid by Irish employees, as a % of their gross wages, is also one of the lowest in the OECD. Of the 35 OECD members in 2017, the average Irish ...
Pierre Moscovici, EU Tax Commissioner said on the 24 January 2017, the EU did not consider Ireland a tax haven, [5] but on 18 January 2018 said that Ireland was a tax blackhole. [27] Ireland has been associated with the term "tax haven" since the U.S. IRS produced a list on the 12 January 1981.
The Irish Patent Box system is one of the key benefits for companies paying Irish corporation tax. The system was criticised by Lionel Jospin in the early 2000s and more recently by both the EU (Ecofin assessment 2014) [5] and the OECD under its Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting (BEPS) project. [6]
In August 2016, Revenue became central to the proposed application of what would have been the largest recorded tax fine in history. [8] Following an investigation of Apple's transfer pricing arrangements with Ireland, [9] the EU Commission initially found that Revenue had given rulings to Apple that amounted to €13 billion in State Aid.
In Ireland, tax credits reduce the amount of Irish income tax that a taxpayer pays in a given year. A few tax credits are granted automatically, while others can be claimed, either by simple notification to Revenue, or by completing a form. All tax credits are expressed as an annual amount. All are non-refundable.
The Double Irish and Single Malt BEPS tools enable Ireland to act as a confidential "Conduit OFC" rerouting untaxed profits to places like Bermuda (e.g. it must be confidential as higher-tax locations would not sign full tax treaties with locations like Bermuda), the Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets (CAIA) BEPS tool (also called the ...
Irish QIAIFs have been used to circumvent international regulations, [45] on avoiding tax laws in the EU and the U.S. [46] [47] Irish QIAIFs can be combined with Irish corporate BEPS tools (e.g. the Orphaned Super–QIF), [48] to create confidential routes out of the Irish corporate tax system to other tax havens such as Luxembourg, [5] the ...