Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands
(asked on 25th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of people aged (a) 21 to 64 and (b) 65 and over who pay income tax pay tax at the higher rate.
This question was answered on 2nd February 2016
The information is not held in the form requested.
Information on the number of taxpayers liable at the higher and additional rates of tax is set out in HM Revenue and Customs’ National Statistics table 2.1. This is available at the following internet address:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/429111/Table_2.1.pdf
This data covers the number of taxpayers aged under 65 years old as well as those aged 65 and over.