Income Tax
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people paying the higher rate of income tax in the most recent tax year.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
In 2023/24, the number of people estimated to have paid the higher rate of income tax can be found in Table 3.4 of HMRC’s Personal Income Statistics, linked below:
The number of people forecast to pay tax by marginal rate can be found in the OBR’s March 2026 Economic and fiscal outlook – detailed forecast tables: receipts, linked below.
The previous Government made the decision to maintain income tax thresholds at their current levels from April 2021 until April 2028 and this is reflected in the numbers.
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