Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 442: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of PAYE employees in the State; if he will provide a breakdown for each regional tax office; the way in which this compares to 2007, in tabular form. [32264/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that for the income tax years 2007 and 2008, the latest year for which the necessary detailed statistics are available, the number of income earners that were identified as being active on the PAYE record in respect of each of those years were 2,162,764 and 2,139,687 respectively.

A breakdown by reference to each tax region is as follows:

The information is based on income returns on Revenue records at the time the data were compiled for analytical purposes, representing about 96 per cent of all returns expected.

A married couple which has elected or has been deemed to have elected for joint assessment is counted as one tax unit.

The source of the information provided in relation to numbers and tax is the P35 end year returns filed by employers in respect of their employees together with the figures for numbers of PAYE taxpayers who are required to return an income tax return form 11 where non-PAYE income is greater than €3,174.