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Ireland as a Digital Economy - Hannah Dunphy

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 Ireland as a Digital Economy  Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you enjoyed my blog from last week. Today's blog is going to give a break down of the Digital Economy in Ireland. Corporation tax:  The Corporation Tax rate in Ireland is 12.5% which is very attractive for multinational companies to set up due to it being one of lowest in the world (Linkedin, 2023) .TikTok, Facebook, Apple, Google and much more household names are located in Ireland (O'Carroll & Partington, 2021) , which employ over 300,000 people in Ireland (IDA, 2022) .From January 2024, the corporation tax rate in Ireland will increase to 15% (Moore, 2023) Here is a link to Pascal O'Donohoe explaining the changes around corporation tax increasing to 15% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbkEWkzJjrw Member of the EU:  Ireland is one of the 27 countries that is part of the EU (European Union, n.d.) , which participates in free trade arrangements of the European Union. This is a huge in...

Introduction - Who am I

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                                        Digital Economy News HD 2023 Hey Guys, my name is Hannah Dunphy and welcome to my blog " Digital Economy News HD 2023".Today I am going to tell you all about myself and my experience on work placement last year as part of my college course. As I previously said, my name is Hannah Dunphy and I am 21 years old and I am from a village called Mullinavat in the south of Kilkenny. I started college at SETU (formally WIT) in 2020, where I am studying Bachelor of Business. For my first year of college , all of my lectures were carried out on Zoom, this was a challenge for me as I didn't know anyone in my class and I had to get used to Moodle and Zoom.  In 3rd year in my course, we have to pick a specialization that you must carry out for 3rd and 4th year. I specialized in Accounting as I had enjoyed the accounting modules in 1st and 2nd year. For the 2...