Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 September 2015
342. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Finance the amount of tax collected on the sale of alcoholic drinks in any recent years, to include excise taxes and VAT on sales; his views on the trends in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31375/15]
View answerI am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that a wide range of statistical information is available on the Commissioners' Statistics webpage: http://www.revenue.ie/en/about/statistics/index.html. In relation to the Deputy's question, detailed information on Excise receipts by commodity can be found at http://www.revenue.ie/en/about/statistics/net-receipts-by-commodity.pdf. The most recent year for which detailed data are available is 2013. Data for 2014 will be published in due course.
I am further informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the total amount of revenue generated for the Exchequer in each of the past five years from Excise and VAT on Alcohol is as shown in the following table.
Please note that VAT receipts are estimated, as VAT returns do not require the yield from a particular product to be identified and the actual VAT yield for each category cannot therefore be determined.
|
Excise |
VAT |
|
|
Alcohol |
(Estimated) |
|
|
€m |
€m |
|
|
2010 |
826.4 |
1,010.5 |
|
2011 |
829.5 |
1,014.0 |
|
2012 |
846.1 |
1,088.8 |
|
2013 |
1,002.0 |
980.8 |
|
2014 |
1,139.8 |
1,053.3 |
