Tax Yield

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 30 March 2017

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Questions (128)

Brendan Griffin

Question:

128. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Finance the annual tax income for the Exchequer from inheritance tax since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15777/17]

Written answers

Minister for Finance

I am advised by Revenue that a breakdown of Capital Acquisitions Tax receipts, including the inheritance tax component, is available on the Revenue Statistics webpage at:

http://www.revenue.ie/en/about/statistics/receipts-capital-acquisitions-tax.html for 2007 to 2016. For the years 2005 and 2006, receipts from inheritance tax were €196.6m and €299.3m respectively.