Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax collected under the heading preliminary tax for each of the past ten years and the revised projection for 2009 under this heading in tabular form. [25438/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I assume that the Deputy is enquiring about the amounts of income tax paid as preliminary tax by self-assessed taxpayers over the period in question. On that basis I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the information requested is as follows.

The 2001 income tax year was a short transitional tax "year" running from 6 April to 31 December 2001 which preceded the first full calendar tax year 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2002. It should be noted that as self-employed taxpayers were assessed to tax for the short "year" on 74% of the profits earned in a 12 month accounting period, the tax figure shown for 2001 in the table will not be directly comparable with those of earlier or later years.