Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of workers that pay the universal social charge that previously did not pay the health and income levy. [8953/11]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the number of income earners who will pay the Universal Social Charge in 2011 is estimated at 1,984,200. The number of income earners paying the Health Levy in 2010 is estimated at 989,100 and the numbers paying the Income Levy in 2010 is estimated at 1,470,000. The figures are estimates from the Revenue tax-forecasting model using actual data for the year 2008, adjusted as necessary to take account of the most recent data available for income and employment trends for the year in question. They are therefore provisional and likely to be revised. It should be noted that numbers have been rounded to the nearest hundred.