Written answers
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Department of Finance
Tax Yield
5:00 pm
Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue generated on VRT for each of the years from 2002 to 2008 and for the first three months of 2009 on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17263/09]
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the information in relation to Vehicle Registration Tax is not captured in such a manner as to identify the receipts generated on a county basis. However, details of the total Vehicle Registration Tax receipts by category of vehicle for the years 2002 to 2008 and the first three months of 2009 are provided in the following table.
Vehicle Registration Tax - Net Receipts
Category A(Motor Cars) | Category B(Car Derived Vans) | Category C(Commercial Vehicles) | Category M(Motor Cycles) | Total Net Receipts | |
Year | € | € | € | € | € |
2002 | 777,126,144 | 9,023,500 | 2,545,976 | 3,875,042 | 792,570,662 |
2003 | 806,712,804 | 6,881,875 | 2,511,034 | 3,344,032 | 819,449,745 |
2004 | 930,024,490 | 10,165,352 | 2,632,821 | 3,150,738 | 945,973,401 |
2005 | 1,128,605,603 | 13,553,352 | 3,291,750 | 3,332,447 | 1,148,783,152 |
2006 | 1,257,506,548 | 22,661,283 | 3,702,805 | 3,537,219 | 1,287,407,855 |
2007 | 1,376,409,029 | 21,694,431 | 3,755,350 | 4,196,824 | 1,406,055,634 |
2008 (Prov) | 1,096,977,660 | 16,859,363 | 2,892,950 | 4,047,411 | 1,120,777,384 |
2009 (Est) | 194,807,000 | 2,426,000 | 554,000 | 872,000 | 198,659,000 |
The estimated receipts for 2009 represents the VRT generated for sales of vehicles from January-March 2009. The net receipts received to the end of March amount to €163 million.
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