The Revenue announced it had collected a record £23.9 billion in taxes last year.

Farmers collected a record $16.2 billion in payments on 2012 crops, chiefly due to drought.

The winner, only referred to as a "South Carolinian", collected a record one-time cash sum of more than $877 million.

Growers collected a record $17 billion in payments for losses caused by the severe 2012 drought.

So far, growers have collected a record $14.7 billion on losses due to the 2012 drought, which is $4 billion more than insurers collected.

They show that the Government collected a record €59 billion in taxes last year, exceeding the 2018 performance by 6.8 per cent or €3.75 billion.