Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff employed in the Revenue Commissioners in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and currently in 2012; the numbers of staff in each of those years assigned to collection of capital taxes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39609/12]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The Revenue Commissioners is an integrated tax and customs administration. They currently employ 5,718 staff across their nine main business programmes. All of the staff assigned to these programmes support, in varying degrees, the central and overarching programme of "tax collection". There are no staff specifically assigned to the collection of capital taxes, such taxes are encompassed in the integrated approach to tax collection. There are currently 837 staff employed in the Collector General's Division of the Revenue Commissioners, one of their primary roles is the collection of taxes. The Revenue Commissioners have provided me with the information in the following table in response to the Deputy's question.

Table: Revenue and Collector General's Staff Numbers* 2007 to date

*The staff numbers are full-time equivalents