Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 May 2013
457. Deputy John Deasy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of motor tax collected for each of the past ten years; and if he will list each of the different categories of motor taxation. [25903/13]
View answerTotal gross motor tax receipts for each year from 2003 through to the end of 2012 are set out in the following table.
|
YEAR |
TOTAL GROSS MOTOR TAX RECEIPTS €m |
|
2003 |
681 |
|
2004 |
747 |
|
2005 |
802 |
|
2006 |
879 |
|
2007 |
956 |
|
2008 |
1,058 |
|
2009 |
1,057 |
|
2010 |
1,023 |
|
2011 |
1,010 |
|
2012 |
1,054 |
Categories of motor taxation are as follows:
- Private vehicles registered before 1 July 2008 (based on engine capacity)
- Private vehicles registered on or after 1 July 2008 (based on carbon emissions)
- Goods vehicles
- Large public service vehicles and youth/community buses
- Off-road dumpers
- General haulage tractors
- Machine/workshop/contrivance vehicles
- Island vehicles
- Agricultural tractors, trench diggers, excavators
- Motor caravans
- Hearses
- Dumpers and forklift trucks
- Taxis and hackneys
- Schoolbuses
- Cycles and Tricycles
- Pedestrian controlled vehicles
- Veteran and vintage.
