Question follow-through · 2694
Pensioners: Income Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of people over State Pension age paid income tax at (a) the basic rate of 20%, (b) the higher rate of 40% and (c) the additional rate of 45% in the last financial year.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2024 · 37 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of people over State Pension age paid income tax at (a) the basic rate of 20%, (b) the higher rate of 40% and (c) the additional rate of 45% in the last financial year.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
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5 Sept 2024
Answer published
The estimated number of people who paid Income Tax by marginal rate in the 2023 to 2024 tax year can be seen in Table 1 below: Table 1: number of Income Tax payers over the State Pension age by marginal rate of Income Tax for 2023-24 Savers Rate taxpayer ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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