Income Tax: Pensioners
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of state pensioners who will pay income tax in each financial year from 2026–27 to 2030–31.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
The Chancellor has set out that individuals whose only income is the basic or new State Pension, without increments, will not pay income tax over this Parliament.
The number of individual Income Tax payers by age can be found in Table 2.1 of the Income Tax liabilities statistics, as linked below:
The updated Income Tax liabilities statistics will be published in July 2026.
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