For decades, multinational corporations have settled in Dublin because they pay incredibly little tax there. But now the global minimum tax is coming. And with that the question: Is Ireland losing its business model?
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Alexander Mühlauer, Dublin
He remembers how it was, that’s it. When Kieran Donoghue graduated from college in the ’80s, he didn’t have much of a choice. Back then, anyone who wanted to make something of their life had to leave. To England, Canada or the USA. To where there was what was missing in Ireland: jobs.