Magento – Get tax rate by identifier/code

$taxCode = "Ireland";
$rawTax= Mage::getSingleton('tax/calculation_rate')->loadByCode($taxCode);
$taxRate = intval($rawTax->getData("rate"));

$taxCode = "Ireland";

$rawTax= Mage::getSingleton('tax/calculation_rate')->loadByCode($taxCode);

$taxRate = intval($rawTax->getData("rate"));

Show all tax code data:

var_dump($rawTax->getData());

1	var_dump($rawTax->getData());

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