Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 6 Feb 1996

Vol. 461 No. 1

Written Answers - Income Tax Yield.

Jim Mitchell

Ceist:

80 Mr. J. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance the total yield from income tax in today's prices in respect of each of the years, 1975, 1985 and 1995; and the percentage of total revenue in each of the three years which was represented by the income tax yield. [2291/96]

Minister for Finance (Mr. Quinn)

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table:

Year	Income Tax Yield in 1995 Prices¹	Income Tax Yield as a Percentage of Total Tax Revenues
	£million
1975	1,523	35.8%
1985	2,800	37.7%
1995	4,129	36.4%

¹Most recent year for which complete Consumer Price Index data is available.

I would draw to the Deputy's attention that the income tax yield expressed as a percentage of GNP was 8.7 per cent in 1975, 12.7 per cent in 1985 and 12.3 per cent in 1995.