Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate, in tabular form, and using the most recently available data from the Revenue Commissioners, the combined pre-tax total declared earnings of all persons, or tax couples, who are, or were, in income bands (details supplied); the number of persons, or tax couples, in each of these income bands; the combined total income tax paid by all persons, or tax couples, in each income band; the combined total universal social charge paid by all the persons, or tax couples, in each income band; the combined total pay related social insurance paid by all persons, or tax couples, in each income band, for each year from 2005 to 2014, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8584/15]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that a wide range of statistical information is now available on the Revenue Commissioners' new, enhanced, statistics webpage at . In particular in response to the Deputy's Question, at detailed information is presented on the breakdowns of gross Income Tax and Universal Social Charge (USC) paid by income range. This information can be found under the heading "Income Tax and Corporation Tax Distribution Statistics", where Table RVA04 shows Income Tax and 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. Data for 2013 and 2014 are not available as yet but these webpages will be updated in due course. If the Deputy requires assistance locating or interpreting the information on the Revenue webpages, the Commissioners are available to assist and may be contacted by email at 

As regards PRSI, I am informed that the breakdown of receipts requested by the Deputy is not available.