Ms Josephine Feehily:

I certainly have some figures on the proportion of people that are not paying tax. I might not have the distribution figure the Deputy seeks, but I can get it for him. My recollection is that the figure not paying now is approximately 40%. The figure for those paying no tax or USC is 24% and the figure for those who pay no income tax is 39%. These are 2013 figures. A total of 24% of all income earners pay no tax and no universal social charge and 39% pay no income tax. I have some headline figures on distribution. The top earning 1% of all cases account for 20% of the tax we collect and the top earning 10% of cases account for 59%. That is for income tax only. When one combines it with USC, the 20% becomes 19% and the 59% becomes 55%. Those are broad figures, but I do not have a granular distribution with me.