Written answers
Thursday, 1 October 2020
Department of Finance
Tax Reliefs
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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90. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of uncollected tax revenue as a result of persons offsetting their private health insurance costs against tax liabilities [27804/20]
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by Revenue that the overall cost associated with tax relief on health insurance, up to 2018 (the latest available year), can be found under the “Medical Insurance Relief” row in the Costs of Tax Expenditures table published at link: .
In 2018, the latest year for which data are available, €355.7 million was claimed in Medical Insurance Relief, with over 1.2 million taxpayer units availing of the relief.
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