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Apple’s Irish operation accounted for two-fifths of $43bn global tax payments last year

The company, which has 5,575 staff in Ireland, booked profits of $34 billion in the State in 2025

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#1482
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21 Aug 2026, 12:19 UTC
Last checked
22 Aug 2026, 04:50 UTC
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Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
21 Aug 2026, 12:14 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Killian Woods
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The company, which has 5,575 staff in Ireland, booked profits of $34 billion in the State in 2025
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    Apple’s Irish operation accounted for two-fifths of $43bn global tax payments last year

    The company, which has 5,575 staff in Ireland, booked profits of $34 billion in the State in 2025

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    Apple’s Irish operation accounted for two-fifths of $43bn global tax payments last year

    The company, which has 5,575 staff in Ireland, booked profits of $34 billion in the State in 2025

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#867
Observed
21 Aug 2026, 14:05 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
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690,938 bytes, private gzip evidence
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news-ledger/0.1
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metadata and excerpt