849. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of claims for Business Relief and for Agricultural Relief under the Capital Acquisitions Tax code, the total value of the assets to which each relief was applied, the total value of the relief granted that is, tax forgone; the breakdown of each by size of benefit; the number of cases in each year in which the relief reduced to…
Topics / Tax Data
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsTax Data
435 questions from 79 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
435
questions
433 written, 2 oral
79
TDs have asked
10
parties and groups
Independents counted together
6
departments asked
Questions per month
The record holds no questions for August, when the Dáil does not sit.
Jan 2025Oct 2026
Show as a table
| Month | Questions |
|---|---|
| January 2025 | 2 |
| February 2025 | 7 |
| March 2025 | 27 |
| April 2025 | 9 |
| May 2025 | 18 |
| June 2025 | 12 |
| July 2025 | 49 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 39 |
| October 2025 | 32 |
| November 2025 | 16 |
| December 2025 | 18 |
| January 2026 | 9 |
| February 2026 | 20 |
| March 2026 | 39 |
| April 2026 | 18 |
| May 2026 | 35 |
| June 2026 | 22 |
| July 2026 | 29 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 16 |
| October 2026 | 18 |
Who asks, by party
The party each TD belonged to on the day, in alphabetical order. Parties differ a lot in size, and members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them, so this shows who raised it, not how much a party cares about it.
The TDs who asked most
Members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them. Each question counts once.
-
107
-
33
-
30
-
20
-
15
-
15
-
9
-
9
Asked of
Debated under the same heading
Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.
The questions
851. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to provide a list of all housing related tax expenditures for buyers, renters, landlords and developers and to provide the annual expenditure for each expenditure from 2020 to 2025 and the individual allocations for 2026, in tabular form. [63739/26]
854. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of beneficiaries and the total taxable value of benefits taken by way of gift and inheritance, by ranges of cumulative benefit received per beneficiary (details supplied); and to provide data both on a per-benefit basis and on the basis of total benefits aggregated per beneficiary within the relevant group threshold, in each of th…
858. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has costed the uplift in IUT receipts if deemed disposal was abolished, and disposals which were subject to the longer-term, uninterrupted compounding of investment returns were instead taxed at final encashment. [63833/26]
878. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the expected number of Irish individual investors who will be liable to pay taxes in 2027 as a result of the decision to defer the abolition of the deemed disposal rule. [64056/26]
880. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total amount of capital acquisitions tax (CAT) arising from inheritances collected in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, broken down by Group A, Group B and Group C beneficiaries, the number of beneficiaries giving rise to a CAT liability within each group in each year; the average and median CAT liability within each group, …
881. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the examination undertaken by his Department in 2026 of the adequacy and fairness of the current €40,000 Group B and €20,000 Group C capital acquisitions tax thresholds, particularly in the context of persons without children who wish to leave assets to siblings, nieces, nephews, extended family members or otherwise; whether changes to these thre…
882. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the options relating to capital acquisitions tax presently under consideration by his Department in advance of Budget 2027, including changes to Group A, B and C thresholds, the treatment of persons without children, a possible single lifetime threshold, chosen-beneficiary arrangements, changes to the 33% rate; and if he will make a statement on …
885. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be raised in a full year if, in addition to the existing rate, higher rates of capital acquisitions tax were applied to the portion of cumulative benefits received by a beneficiary above €1 million, €2 million, €3 million and €5 million respectively; and the estimated revenue effect of applying a r…
671. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the median value of residential property based on the LPT excluding local authorities and AHBs. [54965/26]
672. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of residential properties in each valuation band excluding local authorities and AHBs, in tabular form. [54966/26]
688. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the projected total tax revenue and overall Exchequer balance for 2026; the way in which these projections compare with outturns and forecasts for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55315/26]
689. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the tax revenue collected in 2025, by the main tax categories; the way in which this outturn compares to original Budget 2025 projections for each category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55316/26]
712. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total number of taxpayer units declared rental income on form 11 income tax returns for each of the years from 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [55733/26]
713. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units which claimed at least one allowable deduction on rental income on a form 11 each year since 2016, in tabular form. [55736/26]
714. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units which claimed at least one allowable deduction on residential rental income on a form 11 each year since 2016, in tabular form. [55737/26]
715. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units who are non-resident who declared rental income on a form 11 each year since 2016, in tabular form. [55738/26]
716. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units who are non-resident who declared residential rental income on a form 11 each year since 2016, in tabular form. [55739/26]
717. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units which were non-residents which claimed at least one allowable deduction on rental income on a form 11 each year since 2016, in tabular form. [55740/26]
718. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units which were non-residents which claimed at least one allowable deduction on residential rental income on a form 11 each year since 2016, in tabular form. [55741/26]
719. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total deductible expenses claimed on rental income for each of the years from 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [55742/26]
720. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total deductible expenses claimed on residential rental income for each of the years from 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [55743/26]
721. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units which declared rental income on a form 11 for each of the years from 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [55744/26]
722. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of taxpayer units which declared residential rental income on a form 11 for each of the years from 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [55745/26]
723. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated amount in tax foregone since the abolition of VAT on newspapers. [55802/26]