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Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Department of Finance

Excise Duties Yield

Photo of Patrick NultyPatrick Nulty (Dublin West, Labour)
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156. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount of revenue raised by the State in the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 from excise duties on a packet of 20 cigarettes and rolling tobacco; if he will also indicate the gross national tobacco related excise for each year; if he will provide the rate of excise that corresponds to the revenue information already provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27330/13]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the available figures of excise receipts and rates in each Tobacco Products Tax category in respect of the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 are as follows:

-CigarettesFine CutCigarsOther SmokingTotal
€m€m€m€m€m
20091,155.4046.69.64.91216.5
20101,100.9044.59.64.61159.6
20111,056.8056.29.241126.1
2012989.6717.83.91072.3

Tobacco Products Tax Rates

With Effect from15/10/200808/04/200907/12/201101/05/201206/12/2012
CIGARETTES-----
Specific duty per 1,000 cigarettes€175.30€183.42€192.44€233.11€237.69
Ad Valorem duty as percent of retail price18.28%18.25%18.03%9.04%8.83%
CIGARS (per kilogram)€250.73€261.07€271.34€271.34€275.34
FINE CUT TOBACCO (per kilogram)€211.58€220.30€228.97€228.97€248.61
OTHER SMOKING TOBACCO (per kilog)€173.95€181.12€188.24€188.24€191.02

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