Written question asked by Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat) on Friday, 19 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 23 February 2010. It was answered by Stephen Timms (Labour) on Tuesday, 16 March 2010 on behalf of the Treasury.

Income Tax

Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what proportion of those in receipt of (a) working tax credit only, (b) child tax credit only and (c) working tax credit and child tax credit pay (i) standard rate and (ii) higher rate income tax.

Answer

The information requested is provided in the following table.

Tax Credits received at April 2008	Number of families with taxpayers¹, by the highest rate of tax paid by at least one adult in the family	Proportion of families with taxpayers¹ (%)
	Basic rate²	Higher rate	Basic rate²	Higher rate³
Working Tax Credit (WTC)	280,000	0	77	0
Child Tax Credits (CTC)	2,470,000	210,000	69	6
CTC and WTC	1,310,000	0	76	0
¹ Income from savings and investments is not included in the tax calculation
² This includes families that had starting rate income taxpayers
³ This includes families that had basic and higher rate income taxpayers

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 507 c755-6W; 318389
Session: 2009-10
Subjects: Income tax
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Income Tax

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