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Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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262. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT collected from residential electricity customers in each of the years 2015 to 2019; the VAT that was collected from all electricity customers in the same years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23633/20]

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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263. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT collected from residential gas customers in each of the years 2015 to 2019; the VAT that was collected from all gas customers in the same years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23634/20]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 and 263 together.

I am advised by Revenue that traders are not required to separately identify the VAT yield generated from the supply of specific services on their VAT returns and as such it is not possible to separately report the VAT collected from the sale of electricity or the sale of gas.

However, using information from a combination of Personal Consumption Expenditure reports as compiled by the Central Statistics Office and Ireland’s VAT Own Resources, an estimate of the VAT on residential electricity and residential gas for the available years of 2015 to 2018 is provided below.

Year Estimated VAT yield - Electricity Estimated VAT yield - Gas
2015 €243m €68m
2016 €228m €66m
2017 €193m €60m
2018 €206m €65m

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