Written answers

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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271. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up-to-date figures on the total earnings of the following income categories: the top 1%, 10% and 20%, indicating for each category the number of earners; the total earnings; the average earnings; the total amount of income tax paid, in absolute and percentage effective tax rate terms, including universal social charge and pay related social insurance, and the percentage of all earnings in the State for that year accounted for by each category; and if he will provide the figures in tabular form. [13127/15]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael 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, Income Tax and Universal Social Charge (USC). This information can be found under the heading "Income Tax and Corporation Tax Distribution Statistics", where the tables RVA01 and RVA04 show numbers of taxpayers, their incomes and Income Tax / USC paid by ranges of gross income.

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. Data for 2013 are not available as yet but these webpages will be updated in due course. 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 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 readily available from the Revenue Commissioners.

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