The Department of Finance has a publicly available databank on its website with comprehensive tax data where information on annual yields can be found (http://databank.finance.gov.ie/). For information, the following table lists the annual amounts of VAT receipts received over the period 2009-2012.
|
2009
€million
|
2010
€million
|
2011
€million
|
2012*
€million
|
Value Added Tax
|
10,670
|
10,101
|
9,741
|
10,171
|
*2012 VAT receipts are unaudited figures and are subject to revision
Source: Department of Finance
Tax revenues are not generally assigned to particular areas of expenditure. Rather they are available, along with non-tax revenues, capital receipts as well as moneys sourced from borrowing to fund overall expenditure.