Motor vehicle revenue since 1970
The Members requested annual revenue from motor vehicle sales since 1970; the Minister provided a tabular statement of duties and VAT receipts, with explanatory footnotes.
andMr. Griffin asked the Minister for Finance the actual amount of revenue received annually through the sale of motor vehicles from 1970 to date.
Comment on this
As the answer is in the form of a tabular statement I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to circulate it with the Official Report. The figures are as follows:
Footnotes
(1) The figures represent the receipts from customs and excise duties and VAT on motor vehicles, private and commercial, and their parts and accessories including tyres, home-produced and imported.
(2) Separate figures for VAT on motor vehicles are not available for years prior to 1975; for those years motor vehicles were included under the same rate of VAT as other goods and traders were not required to distinguish them in their returns. The VAT figures for the years 1975et seq. are estimated having regard to such matters as the extent to which vehicles qualify for relief in respect of use for business purposes.
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