Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 September 2020
293. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for Finance the number of self-employed persons registered with the Revenue Commissioners who list their profession as musician, sound engineer, lighting engineer and stage production or other related titles within the music industry. [21966/20]
View answerI am advised by Revenue that it uses the European ‘NACE’ classification system for categorising activities and sectors. Based on this classification which assigns taxpayers according to their main activity, in 2018 there were approximately 2,100 self-employed taxpayers in the categories ‘Performing Arts’ and ‘Support Activities to Performing Arts’.
In addition, the following table shows, for 2018, those taxpayers who fall under various other NACE categories, but whose trade description on their tax returns include the following:
|
Description |
Number of self-employed taxpayers |
|
musician |
588 |
|
sound engineer |
131 |
|
lighting engineer or stage production |
10 |
