Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for refund of income tax made to the Revenue Commissioners made in each of the past five years to date in 2012; the total value of refund approved and rejected in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10277/12]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the table included with this reply represents the number of repayments made to PAYE taxpayers for 2007 to 2011. These repayments represent those cases for which a review of taxpayers' details resulted in a PAYE refund following claims from the taxpayer for credits or reliefs to which they are entitled. I am further informed that the total amount refunded is exclusive of mortgage and medical insurance relief, which are granted at source. The relevant figures for 2012 to date are not yet available. The total amount of PAYE paid to the Exchequer in 2011 was almost €8.5 billion.

Regarding rejected refunds, I am further informed by Revenue that since the launch of its real-time risk framework system in July 2011, some 43,200 refund claims, to the value of approximately €43.5million, have been examined and of these, approximately 4,500 claims with a value of almost €5 million have been disapproved to date.