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Treasury

Answer

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in (a) the UK, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the City of York pay (i) half or more than half of their income tax and (ii) all of their income tax at the 10 pence starting rate. [224686] Dawn Primarolo: I refer my hon. Friend to table 2.1 "Number of individual income taxpayers" on the Inland Revenue website www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/ stats/income tax/table2-1.pdf. This table shows that 3.4 million income taxpayers in the UK in 2004-05 pay all of their income tax at the starting rate. 4.7 million UK income taxpayers pay half or more than half of their total income tax liability at the starting rate. These estimates are based upon the Survey of Personal Incomes 2002-03 and are consistent with the pre-Budget report 2004. Estimates consistent with the Budget 2005 will be published on the Inland Revenue website at the end of April 2005. I refer the hon. Friend to table 3.11 "Income and tax, by region and country", 3.15 "Total income by parliamentary constituency" and the introductory note on personal incomes on the Inland Revenue website for the available income tax statistics for Yorkshire and the Humber and the City of York. The information can be found at www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/income distribution/table311-0203.pdf, www.inlandrevenue. gov.uk/stats/income distribution/table-3-15.pdf and www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/income distribution/ inc-distribution-note.pdf.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1177-8W; 224686

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Income tax Tax rates and bands York Taxation Yorkshire and the Humber

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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