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Pascal Saint-Amans: keynote speaker at tax conference
Peter Flanagan – 24 July 2013
IRELAND is not a tax haven, and there is little this country can do on its
own to amend global tax laws, a senior OECD official said yesterday.
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Speaking at an Oireachtas sub-committee on global taxation, the OECD's
director of its centre for tax policy and administration Pascal
Saint-Amans said definitively that Ireland did not fill any of the
relevant criteria for the OECD to class this state as a tax haven.
"The definition for a tax haven that was internationally agreed classes
it as a country with a zero tax rate, no transparency or exchange of
information, and no real operations on the ground there," he said in
response to a query from Fianna Fail's Michael McGrath.
"Clearly Ireland does not fill those criteria," he said.
Mr Saint-Amans said that the problems with the global tax system could
not be addressed by a single country on its own.
"These issues must be decided at an international level. A country can
make some changes to its own laws, but there is little scope for
significant changes to be made unilaterally. This problem needs a
multilateral solution, he said.
Mr Saint-Amans's appearance via video link – a first for the Oireachtas
– came less than a week after the OECD published a new report into
global corporate tax avoidance.
That report made a number of recommendations that would force companies
to pay more tax, but he made it clear those recommendations did not
favour large countries over small or vice-versa.
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