Digital Economy 2023

  1. Europe has an average of 21.5% tax rate, and Ireland is greatly below this with a tax rate of 12.5%, this makes Ireland highly attractive to global companies, companies that are taking advantage of this low tax rate is Google, Pfizer, Apple and Johnson & Johnson. In 2021 Ireland had the second lowest tax rate in Europe according to Statista, Hungary with the lowest at 9% and Portugal's highest tax rate at 31.5% 2. Ireland also has tax treaties with Japan, Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, this allows a 25% research and development tax credit.   3. Ireland's highly skilled workforce, Ireland has the highest average of 18-year-olds in education than any other European country. Ireland’s colleges are also up to date with the constantly changing technological environment by offering constantly adapting and updating IT courses and offering a large variety of apprenticeships.   4. By doing business in Ireland gives business access t...

  An Introduction to Me I am a 21-year-old student in my final year of my bachelor of business (Honors) degree within the marketing stream, I am studying at SETU Waterford. My first year in college was online through Zoom due to the pandemic, my second year was hybrid, meaning it was partly online and partly in person. In my third year, we had to decide which stream to focus on and in the second semester of my third year, we were given the options of studying abroad, teaching placements, work placement, or an enterprise start-up. I chose to part take in the work placement as I have no interest in a teaching placement or starting up a mini company and studying abroad would be too expensive. My work placement took place in Camida in Clonmel which is a pharmaceutical company, I was offered a position there for my placement by the owner as he is a close family friend. My placement was six months long (16 th January to 14 th July), I was originally supposed to do 6 weeks in each d...