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Seamus Coffey (born 1977/78) is an Irish economist in University College Cork who specialises in Irish national accounts and Irish corporate taxation, and in 2016 was made Chair of the statutory financial oversight body, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC).
Coffey authored the Irish State's review of the Irish corporate tax code in 2016 (the Coffey Report), whose findings were implemented in 2017–2018.His bi-annual statutory IFAC reports on the sustainability of Irish State finances are covered in the Irish and international media.In December 2017, International Tax Review named Coffey in its 2017 Global Tax 50.Coffey maintains an economics blog called Economic Incentives, which was the first to show the source of Ireland's 2015 Leprechaun economics GDP growth was Apple.
Coffey has won praise amongst financial commentators for the independence of IFAC's reports, and his role of financial watchdog of state finances.
Sources
- REVIEW OF IRELAND’S CORPORATION TAX CODE – 2016 (Coffey Report), from the Department of Finance (Ireland) Website
