The number of vehicles taxed at the end of December in each of the past five years is set out in this table.
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2010
|
2011
|
2012
|
2013
|
2014
|
|
Private vehicles
|
1,872,715
|
1,887,810
|
1,882,550
|
1,910,165
|
1,943,868
|
|
Goods vehicles
|
327,096
|
320,966
|
309,219
|
317,849
|
317,378
|
|
Agricultural vehicles
|
63,677
|
64,423
|
63,080
|
89,492
|
85,042
|
|
Motorcycles
|
38,145
|
36,582
|
35,106
|
36,623
|
36,573
|
|
Small public service vehicles
|
26,680
|
25,129
|
24,180
|
22,964
|
22,373
|
|
Large public service vehicles
|
8,245
|
8,276
|
8,266
|
8,488
|
8,802
|
|
Vintage vehicles
|
25,197
|
27,194
|
28,335
|
40,989
|
44,620
|
|
Motor caravans
|
10,770
|
10,938
|
9,492
|
9,643
|
9,995
|
|
Mobile machines
|
5,642
|
5,530
|
5,203
|
5,433
|
5,402
|
|
Excavators, trench diggers
|
4,390
|
4,228
|
4,087
|
6,233
|
6,190
|
|
Small dumpers & forklift trucks
|
2,360
|
2,074
|
1,925
|
2,545
|
2,627
|
|
General haulage tractors
|
1,009
|
939
|
847
|
837
|
781
|
|
Schoolbuses
|
871
|
833
|
859
|
868
|
788
|
|
Hearses
|
820
|
856
|
868
|
917
|
926
|
|
Youth and community buses
|
819
|
782
|
802
|
797
|
815
|
|
Island vehicles
|
838
|
814
|
927
|
1,017
|
1,080
|
|
Off Road Dumpers
|
21
|
13
|
22
|
15
|
29
|
|
Exempt vehicles
|
27,092
|
27,769
|
27,455
|
27,682
|
28,033
|
|
Total
|
2,416,387
|
2,425,156
|
2,403,223
|
2,482,557
|
2,515,322
|
Gross receipts for the periods requested are set out in this table.
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|
Gross receipts (€)
|
|
1 July 2011 - to 30 June 2012
|
1,025,278,147
|
|
1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013
|
1,061,809,780
|
|
1 July 2013 - 30 June 2014
|
1,165,794,839
|
|
1 July 2014 - 31 May 2015
|
1,051,448,841
|
There have been two budgetary increases in the last five years. These took effect from 1 January 2012 and from 1 January 2013. Accordingly, 2014 is the first full year since the introduction of the new system of declaring vehicles off the road in which budgetary increases did not impact on receipts. Gross motor tax receipts for 2014, at €1.159bn, increased by €41m (3.65%) on 2013 (€1.118bn). In the absence of a motor tax rate increase, a reduction in receipts would otherwise have been expected given the ongoing changeover of the car fleet to the CO2 based system, which carries a lower average tax. Since the introduction of the CO2 based system, there has been a reduction in receipts in each year where no budgetary increases were applied – receipts fell from €1.057bn in 2009, the first full year of the CO2 based system, to €1.023bn in 2010 and to €1.010bn in 2011.
