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Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Photo of Neale RichmondNeale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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163. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue generated from VAT, mineral oil tax and carbon tax on liquid fuel in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9464/21]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by Revenue that receipts for Mineral Oil Tax (MOT) and carbon tax on liquid fuels for the years up to year 2019 are published on the Revenue website at:

The provisional receipts from MOT and carbon tax for 2020 are shown in the table below.

Mineral Oil Tax Carbon Tax
2020 €m 2020 €m
Petrol 424.7 46.1
Aviation Gasoline 0.5 0.06
Auto -diesel 1,351.6 212.6
Marked Gas Oil 37.5 65.3
Kerosene 0.0 68.2
Fuel Oil 0.6 1.3
LPG (Other) 0.0 11.2
Auto LPG 0.1 0.04

Regarding the VAT generated from liquid fuels, I am advised by Revenue that taxpayers are not required to separately identify the yield generated from a particular activity or product type on their VAT returns. However, using a combination of Revenue and third-party data, an estimate of the VAT yield across each of the different commodities types is provided below.

2019

€m
2020

€m
Petrol 276.4 195.9
Aviation Gasoline 0.2 0.2
Auto -diesel 298.5 187.0
Marked Gas Oil 52.2 47.6
Kerosene 85.7 73.5
Fuel Oil 53.2 60.5
LPG (Other) 9.1 10.6
Auto LPG 0.4 0.3

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