Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands

(asked on 21st November 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Gregory Campbell Portrait
Gregory Campbell
(Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people who pay higher-rate income tax in the last five years.

Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
This question was answered on 28th November 2017

Estimates of the number of taxpayers by marginal tax rate are published in National Statistics table 3.4, which is part of HMRC’s Personal Incomes Statistics collection. The latest available tax year is 2014-15.

Tables for tax years 2010-11 to 2014‑15 can be found at the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-tax-liabilities-of-starting-savers-basic-and-higher-rate-taxpayers-by-largest-source-of-income-2010-to-2011

For convenience, the numbers of individuals for each of the five years have been collated in the table below:

Tax Year

Total number of taxpayers (thousands)

Higher rate

Additional rate

2010-11

3,020

236

2011-12

3,570

262

2012-13

3,720

273

2013-14

4,200

311

2014-15

4,300

328

Notes on the table

  1. Counts of individuals are rounded to the nearest thousand and to three significant figures.

  2. Counts of individuals liable at the Higher marginal rate excludes those liable at the Additional rate, which are therefore shown separately.

  3. Marginal tax rate is the rate paid on the last unit of income.

    These estimates are based on the annual Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI). For more information about the SPI, please refer to:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-incomes-statistics

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