0268 - Why Ireland? with Anna Scally
From Design Talk (dot IE) by Allen Higgins
December 9, 2025 · 50 min · Season 13 · Episode 268
About this episode
Anna Scally discusses corporate taxation in Ireland and its implications for technology companies in a seminar setting.
Our guest for this session is Anna Scally - Partner and Head of Technology Media & Telecoms, KPMG in Ireland and EMA KPMG in Ireland. This is the third of 3 seminars organised by John Mooney as part of the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School MBA programme in collaboration with UCD’s MSc Digital Innovation programme. Anna gave a masterclass intro to corporate taxation in Ireland and its relationship with global trade (focus on technology companies). Yes, we need to talk about Trade, Tariffs, and Taxes, but the answers revolve around Technology, Connection, Trust, and People. Notes: Anna’s profile pages on KPMG.com ( link ) and LinkedIn ( link ) For more about the KPMG Global Tech Innovation competition 2025 ( link ) Washington National Tax (WNT); the KPMG think tank and technical core of KPMG’s U.S. tax practice. ( link ) Anna sits on the Advisory Board of Scale Ireland - https://www.scaleireland.com - Scale Ireland is Ireland’s leading independent not-for-profit, representative organisation for Irish tech start-up and scaling companies. IDA Ireland (the Ireland Development Authority) - http://idaireland.com - (Irish: An Ghníomhaireacht Forbartha…
People in this episode
Host: Allen Higgins
Guest: Anna Scally
Topics covered
- corporate taxation
- global trade
- technology companies
- trade
- tariffs
- taxes
Keywords
- Ireland
- corporate taxation
- technology
- global trade
- KPMG
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: KPMG, Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, UCD’s MSc Digital Innovation programme, Scale Ireland, IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland
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