Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)
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264. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of retirees who are registered as self-employed with the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33241/15]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that they do not require taxpayers to advise them if they are retirees. However if certain assumptions are made regarding the definition of a retiree, it is possible to use the 2013 income tax returns, the latest year for which data are available, to provide the information sought by the Deputy. On the basis that a retiree is assumed to be a taxpayer aged 65 or over on 1 January 2013 and in receipt of trading or professional income, it is estimated that approximately 14,000 self-employed retirees submitted income tax returns in respect of 2013.