Written answers
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Department of Finance
Tax Yield
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the tax take both as a percentage of gross domestic product and in nominal terms by year from 1992 to 2011. [41513/12]
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy may be aware the Department of Finance now has a publicly available databank on its website with comprehensive tax data where this information can be found (http://databank.finance.gov.ie/). Similarly GDP data can be found on the CSO website (www.cso.ie ).
The information requested by the Deputy is provided as follows.
Year | Total Tax (€m) | GDP (€m) | Total Tax as % of GDP |
---|---|---|---|
1992 | €11,314 | €40,489 | 27.9% |
1993 | €12,322 | €43,605 | 28.3% |
1994 | €13,758 | €46,864 | 29.4% |
1995 | €14,392 | €53,787 | 26.8% |
1996 | €15,897 | €58,894 | 27.0% |
1997 | €18,124 | €68,154 | 26.6% |
1998 | €20,480 | €78,685 | 26.0% |
1999 | €23,565 | €90,683 | 26.0% |
2000 | €27,072 | €105,775 | 25.6% |
2001 | €27,925 | €117,643 | 23.7% |
2002 | €29,294 | €130,877 | 22.4% |
2003 | €32,103 | €140,827 | 22.8% |
2004 | €35,581 | €150,194 | 23.7% |
2005 | €39,254 | €163,037 | 24.1% |
2006 | €45,539 | €177,729 | 25.6% |
2007 | €47,249 | €188,729 | 25.0% |
2008 | €40,777 | €178,882 | 22.8% |
2009 | €33,043 | €161,275 | 20.5% |
2010 | €31,753 | €156,487 | 20.3% |
2011 | €34,027 | €158,993 | 21.4% |
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