On July 15th 2020 Ireland won its appeal against a European Commission ruling that it gave Apple illegal state aid in the form of tax advantages that gave it an unfair advantage over other EU countries. According to the Commission, Apple owes Ireland a hefty sum of €14.3 billion in uncollected taxes. Margrethe Vestager, theContinue reading “Ireland and her exports”
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mapping Irish exports in Python
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about a reduction in consumer spending in economies around the world so it got me thinking about who are Ireland’s biggest trading partners. Fortunately, the wonderful people over at the Central Statistics Office publish this data and more but for now, I’m going to focus on creating aContinue reading “mapping Irish exports in Python”
Paul Gleeson 