John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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457. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of motor tax collected for each of the past 10 years; and if he will list each of the different categories of motor taxation. [25903/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Total gross motor tax receipts for each year from 2003 through to the end of 2012 are set out in the following table.

Categories of motor taxation are as follows:

- Private vehicles registered before 1 July 2008 (based on engine capacity)

- Private vehicles registered on or after 1 July 2008 (based on carbon emissions)

- Goods vehicles

- Large public service vehicles and youth/community buses

- Off-road dumpers

- General haulage tractors

- Machine/workshop/contrivance vehicles

- Island vehicles

- Agricultural tractors, trench diggers, excavators

- Motor caravans

- Hearses

- Dumpers and forklift trucks

- Taxis and hackneys

- Schoolbuses

- Cycles and Tricycles

- Pedestrian controlled vehicles

- Veteran and vintage.