Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 November 2013
37. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Finance if he will report on the total levels of tax expenditure on all of the tax reliefs granted by the Irish State under the Finance Acts down to 2013. [49228/13]
View answerI am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the total identifiable costs to the Exchequer which are currently available relate to income tax and corporation tax allowances, reliefs, exemptions and tax credits and are shown in Table IT6 on the Revenue Statistical Report for 2011 which is accessible on the Revenue website at www.revenue.ie. The information is located under the main chapter heading of Income Tax and shows the information for the years 2009 and 2010 which are the most recent years for which the necessary detailed historical information is available.
That table showing costs of tax reliefs has been published on the website since 1996. Prior to that it had been included in every annual Revenue report going back to the tax year 1980/81. It would not be a practical exercise for Revenue to assemble an electronic version of the table for these years nor to provide the information requested for years prior to tax year 1980/81.
