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Global Money Week Newsletter

Global Money Week Newsletter

Editorial Team


Between 18 and 24 March, Revenue Commissioners (Irish Tax and Customs) participated in Global Money Week (GMW) 2024. Organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), GMW is an annual worldwide financial awareness campaign for children and young people. The goal of GMW is to give young people the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to make sound financial decisions and ultimately achieve financial wellbeing and resilience. In 2024, GMW was coordinated in Ireland by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), with organisations and schools throughout Ireland taking part.

The official GMW slogan is “Learn. Save. Earn”. This slogan represents the key messages of GMW, empowering students to learn about money management, as well as encouraging them to save for their futures and develop skills which will support them in obtaining employment or becoming self-employed. 

Each year, GMW also focuses on a theme. GMW2024 theme, “Protect your money, secure your future,” focused on safe money management and being aware of potential risks such as financial scams and fraud, including phishing, smishing and identity theft. 

What did Revenue do for Global Money Week 2024? 

Revenue issued a GMW newsletter to educators who had previously registered to receive education focused newsletters from Revenue. The newsletter provided subscribers with information on:

  • What is GMW
  • the GMW organiser within Ireland
  • the GMW 2024 events and activities
  • Revenue’s involvement in GMW.
     
Classroom with students


During GMW, Revenue’s Schools outreach team visited a select number of secondary schools, delivering presentations to students in Transition Year, 5th and 6th year. The presentations included topics such as

  • how to get set up on myAccount to manage your own taxes and
  • how to use Revenue’s online services safely and securely.

Revenue Online Services

 

Revenue shared key messages on its X (formerly Twitter) account. These messages provided information on:

  • how to use Revenue’s online services (ROS and myAccount) safely
  • how Revenue contacts its customers
  • common scams for customers to be aware of.


These messages received over 15,000 views during GMW. 

Alongside its work during Global Money Week, Revenue continues to promote its Transition Year “Introduction to Tax ‘module, through attendance at various teacher conferences. Launched in October 2023, over 2,500 students across Ireland have so far undertaken the Introduction to Tax course. The course is free to download from the Revenue website, and includes all materials needed to teach the course. The module provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary for students to manage their own tax affairs.