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620,000 taxpayers overpaid on their taxes last year
Taxpayers overspent €683 million on their taxes last year, according to preliminary estimates
Just under 620,000 Irish taxpayers overpaid on their tax over the course of 2023, totalling an overspend of €683 million, new figures from Revenue suggest.
Revenue says that over 472,000 PAYE income tax returns were processed for the year of 2023, an increase of 30 per cent on the year before.
About 275,000 of these tax returns resulted in an overpayment of tax.
Michael McGrath, minister for finance, said that since the beginning of 2024, ...