Written answers

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Department of Finance

Universal Social Charge Yield

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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259. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €0 and €10,036 of all persons who pay the charge. [4753/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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260. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €10,036 and €20,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4754/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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261. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €20,001 and €30,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4755/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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262. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €30,001 and €40,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4756/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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263. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €40,001 and €50,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4757/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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264. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €50,001 and €60,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4758/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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265. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €60,001 and €70,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4759/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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266. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €70,001 and €80,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4760/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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267. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €80,001 and €90,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4761/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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268. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €90,001 and €100,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4762/15]

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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269. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income above €100,000 of all persons who pay the charge. [4763/15]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 259 to 269, inclusive, together.

I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the breakdown of the Universal Social Charge (USC) receipts requested by the Deputy is not available. It is not possible to isolate the USC paid on certain ranges of income, nor are detailed data for 2014 available as yet.

However, the Deputy may be interested to note that a wide range of statistical information is now available on the Revenue Commissioners' new, enhanced, statistics webpage at . In particular, at , detailed information on the breakdowns of gross income and USC paid by income range can be found under the heading "Income Tax and Corporation Tax Distribution Statistics", where Table RVA03 shows USC payments by income range.

This recently released facility provides breakdowns on the annual distribution of Income Tax from 2004 to 2012 and USC from 2011 to 2012 using the Central Statistics Office data toolset. Whereas previously information of this nature was provided by way of static tables in documents, these data are now published in a format which may be dynamically accessed by a range of user defined queries. If the Deputy requires assistance locating the information on the Revenue webpages, the Commissioners are available to assist and may be contacted by email at .

Figures are available currently for years up to 2012, the last year for which returns have been filed and fully processed. Updates will be published in due course.

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