HOW WILL 'BIG TECH" IN IRELAND SURVIVE THE TRUMP YEARS? Google, Apple & Meta. Is Ireland in danger?

Описание: What Happens to Ireland If Big Tech Leaves? And what happens to Ireland if big tech decides - we’re off!

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On paper, Ireland is one of the richest countries in the world. Yet if you walk through most Irish towns, you don’t feel like you’re in a hyper-rich country. However Ireland is richer per person than Germany. Richer than France. Sometimes richer than the United States.

For decades, Ireland made a very specific offer to the world: “Come for the low corporate tax.Stay for the EU access. Ignore the weather,” and the world’s biggest tech companies came. And, suddenly, a country famous for Guinness and poets became essential to the global digital economy.
And the fact that we speak English here makes Ireland all the more inviting for big tech western enterprises. It was the deal that changed Ireland.

When people imagine Big Tech in Ireland, they imagine Dublin. But the impact spreads much further than than the M50. Tech money pays for:
public services, construction jobs, cafés, pubs, shops, rent in places that were never meant to be expensive

In a few years, just ten multinational companies provided more than half of all corporate tax collected by the Irish state. That means Ireland isn’t just enjoying Big Tech. It’s relying on it.

Now enter Donald Trump. Trump’s view of the global economy, put politely, is interestingly paired down. In his view American companies should:
be in America, pay tax in America and ideally stop doing clever things elsewhere. From Washington’s point of view, Ireland isn’t a gorgeous island with good music and whiskey. It’s a strategic outpost in the global tax system. A mere line in a spreadsheet. Trump doesn’t need to wake up one morning and say,“Today, we ruin Ireland.” All it takes is: changes to US tax rules, pressure on profit shifting or a trade war mood swing, and suddenly, investment decisions start happening somewhere else. Having said all that, Trump COULD also wake up one morning and just say “Let’s Ruin Ireland” that’s a real possibility too as we all know I think.

If Big Tech ever leaves Ireland, it won’t look dramatic. There won’t be empty offices with flickering lights. It results simply in:: hiring freezes, fewer graduates getting calls back, expansion happening in Germany, or France, or the US and profits being booked… somewhere else.
And, because Ireland’s recent budget surpluses depend heavily on corporate tax, that quiet change becomes a loud problem.

Ireland’s economic statistics are so strange that economists gave them a nickname. “Leprechaun economics.” Because multinational profits pass through Ireland, massively inflating GDP —without actually improving daily life very much. GDP doesn’t build houses.GDP doesn’t staff hospitals.and it doesn’t stop your rent going up. It just looks very impressive in international rankings. Which is nice. But not especially useful.

When big tech pulls out the first people affected wouldn’t be CEOs.
It’ll be: renters, young workers and small towns that quietly depend on urban wages. Ireland has seen this pattern before. When opportunity dries up, people leave.

Big Tech has brought real benefits. But, it has also tied the future of these places to decisions made far away. And as global politics shift — especially in the US — that dependence becomes harder to ignore.
Because if Big Tech leaves, it won’t just change balance sheets in Dublin.
It will change life in Ireland immeasurably.