Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance

Ms Clare Costello:

It is based on data that we would have got from the Revenue Commissioners. When taxpayers return their residential rental income if they have more than one property, there is one return, so there are more than 160,000 rental properties but there are 160,000 taxpayer units that returned residential rental income in 2021. That is what it was based on.