If you can't be intellectually honest and accept that Ireland would be a fraction of what it is without its tax evasion system idk what to say, there is literally not a single source that will tell you otherwise, even their own official reports mention that it is the case.
When 25% of your GDP comes for a single foreign company with 6000 employees in your country it's time to raise an eyebrow, especially when the facility's job is to assemble "made to order" computers (like the dude at the corner of my street).
> The "multinational tax schemes" used by some of these multinational firms contribute to a distortion in Ireland's economic statistics; including GNI, GNP and GDP
> A particularly dramatic growth in Ireland's 2015 GDP (from 1% in 2013, to 8% in 2014, to 25% in 2015) was shown to be largely driven by Apple restructuring their double Irish subsidiary
We don't use GDP because we're not a bloody Coal and Steel Union in the 1950s, we're a Service based economy in a Globalised marketplace.
We use Modified GNI (GNI*) - GNI minus the depreciation on Intellectual Property, depreciation on leased aircraft and the net factor income of redomiciled PLCs - which accounts for almost all of what you're citing bar some more egregious BEPS tools which are closed for years.
When 25% of your GDP comes for a single foreign company with 6000 employees in your country it's time to raise an eyebrow, especially when the facility's job is to assemble "made to order" computers (like the dude at the corner of my street).
> The "multinational tax schemes" used by some of these multinational firms contribute to a distortion in Ireland's economic statistics; including GNI, GNP and GDP
> A particularly dramatic growth in Ireland's 2015 GDP (from 1% in 2013, to 8% in 2014, to 25% in 2015) was shown to be largely driven by Apple restructuring their double Irish subsidiary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_EU_tax_dispute#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Republic_of_Ire...