RTE’s top earner Ryan Tubridy has been given a tax break for The First Christmas Jumper, a children’s book he wrote last year. The broadcaster is included on the latest list released by Revenue of those who qualify for the artists’ tax exemption scheme.

Introduced in 1969 to support local talent and attract artists to settle in Ireland, the scheme is extensively used by Irish celebrities after they put pen to paper. The latest list includes Lynn Ruane, an independent senator, for her memoir People Like Me.

Three other RTE broadcasters are included. Newscaster Caitríona Perry got a tax break for her book In America: Tales from Trump Country, as did current affairs presenter David McCullagh for the second volume of his biography of Éamon