Self-assessed farmers paid €217m in tax in 2014 according to Revenue

The Revenue Commissioners Statistics and Research Branch has published a detailed profile of the farming sector in Ireland, arising from the data which they routinely capture through tax returns.

This body of work is particularly useful as it is fact-based rather than subjective, rooted in hard data, but the findings are made yet more useful by layering on information already available from the National Farm Survey (operated by Teagasc).

According to Revenue’s data, there are 129,263 farmers.