Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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177. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated time for the tax rate on roll-your-own tobacco to reach equivalence with manufactured cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19555/19]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by Revenue that if tax on roll-your-own tobacco was increased using an annual tax escalator of 10%, it would take approximately four years for the tax rate on roll-your-own tobacco to reach equivalence with cigarettes. That is providing there was no further increase in Tobacco Products Tax on cigarettes during that period.

Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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178. To ask the Minister for Finance the cigarette production volumes in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the tobacco product tax receipts on fine cut tobacco since 2003, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19556/19]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by Revenue that the available information is in respect of the volumes of cigarettes on which Tobacco Products Tax is paid. The clearance data for cigarettes for the years 2003 to 2017 are published on the Revenue website at the following link:

www.revenue.ie/en/corporate/documents/statistics/excise/excise-volumes-commodity.pdf.

The provisional clearances for 2018 and the period January to March 2019 are as follows:

The Tobacco Product Tax receipts on fine cut tobacco for the period 2003 to 2017 are published on the Revenue website at the following link:

www.revenue.ie/en/corporate/documents/statistics/excise/excise-other-tobacco-products.pdf.

The provisional receipts for 2018 and the period January to March 2019 are as follows: