Seamus Coffey is an Irish economist and media contributor with a focus on the performance of the Irish economy and Irish macroeconomic and fiscal policy.
He is a lecturer at
University College Cork
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.
The university was founded in 1845 as one o ...
. He was chair of the
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Fiscal Council; ga, Comhairle Chomhairleach Bhuiséadach na hÉireann) is a non-departmental statutory body providing independent assessments and analysis of the Irish Government's fiscal stance, its economic and ...
(IFAC) from 2016 to 2020.
Career
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 distorted GDP growth was
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.
Coffey has won praise amongst financial commentators for the independence of IFAC's reports, and his role of 'financial watchdog' of state finances.
See also
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Morgan Kelly (economist)
Morgan Kelly is Professor of Economics at University College Dublin (UCD). Described by ''The Irish Times'' as the country's official soothsayer, Kelly notably predicted the bursting of the Irish property bubble.
Background
Kelly studied at T ...
References
Sources
REVIEW OF IRELAND’S CORPORATION TAX CODE – 2016 (''Coffey Report'') from the
Department of Finance (Ireland)
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The Department of Finance is responsible for the administration ...
Website
External links
Economic Incentives Seamus Coffey's economics blog
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Board profiles
UCC Business School: Seamus Coffey Seamus Coffey profile page in
University College Cork
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.
The university was founded in 1845 as one o ...
Interview with Seamus Coffey ''
RTE News'' (May 2013)
21st-century Irish economists
1970s births
Academics of University College Cork
Living people
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