Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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281. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding tax paid by groups of income earners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11906/15]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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282. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the percentage of tax take in respect of income categories (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11907/15]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 281 and 282 together.

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 Questions, detailed information is presented on the breakdowns of gross income at . This information can be found under the heading ""Income Tax and Corporation Tax Distribution Statistics", where the table RVA01 shows numbers of taxpayers, their incomes and Income Tax paid by ranges of gross income.

This recently released facility provides breakdowns of the annual distribution of Income Tax from 2004 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 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  .