Leprechaun Economics with Ireland at top FDI in US but a tax haven can fall for a mirage

Foreign multinationals paid roughly 88% of all Irish corporate tax in 2024, with the top 10 firms contributing over half of the total.

The real Irish GDP Per Capita in 2024 was at €40,000, similar to Italy.    

—— Ireland: 5th source of US FDI: tax inversions + small number of Irish firms ——

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced within a country's borders during a specific period, typically a year or quarter. 

It acts as a primary indicator of a nation's economic health, measuring size, growth rate, and overall economic activity.

Let's ignore the Duchy of Luxembourg, where near 50% of the workforce comes from adjacent countries. The population is almost 700,000 people.

Ireland has 2 Annual GDP Per Capita Results: 

In 2024, the level was ILLION.108.9K per US dollar /  €104.6 K per euro. It, in effect, was at the top.

1) The Main Annual Accounts include tax haven data for international consumption: €562.8 billion 

2) The Second set of Annual Accounts includes: €321.1 billion

The Modified GNI (GNI*), including:

• factor income of Redomiciled Companies
• depreciation on R&D Service Imports and Trade in Intellectual Property (IP)
• depreciation on Aircraft Leasing

 Per Capita was €59,000, but there is another fiction (see below further).

Europe is home to 6 of the globe’s top 10 tax havens, and Ireland tops the list

In 2024, Ireland recorded the highest value of EU exports of services to non-member countries, reaching €334 billion????

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"They now call it the Donroe Doctrine," Trump said. 

Ireland's Foreign—Born Population at 26% in the year of centerary of 1926 Census

National Archives: The 1926 Census with over 700,000 individual household returns

The first Census of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann)

The first census of the Irish Free State, taken on April 18, 1926, recorded a total population of 2,971,992 persons. 

This figure represented a population decrease of 5.3% from the last all-Ireland census in 1911, under British rule. The data from the 1926 census provides a detailed snapshot of the newly independent nation, with statistics on various aspects of life.

The 1922 establishment of the Irish Free State marked the first significant self-rule for most of Ireland since the English conquest, following centuries of domination, culminating in defeat at Kinsale in 1601 during the Nine Years' War, which ended Gaelic Ireland's last major resistance against English rule, paving the way for English colonisation.

It was 321 bitter years of English/British rule over the Irish, spanning from the defeat at Kinsale to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Kinsale, Ireland, became a medieval walled town in the 13th century under Anglo-Norman control, strategically built around a sheltered harbour for trade, defence, and customs collection.

"On 21 September 1601, a Spanish fleet of twenty-eight sail occupied the Irish port at Kinsale with about 3,300 men, disembarking in a badly victualled and furnished condition under the maestro de campo general, Don Juan del Águila....Lord Deputy Mountjoy’s response was rapid and decisive; he arrived in Cork on 27 September with a small force, leaving his main army to follow. He locked up the Spaniards in Kinsale, seized the forts around the harbour and sealed off the haven. But in doing so, he weakened his forces in the north and left the Pale unprotected....."`

The Battle of Kinsale, 1601

In 1926, the first Census of the Irish Free State recorded a Foreign—Born population of approximately 67,076 people, representing 2.5% of the total population.