Question follow-through · 18292
Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of freezing Income Tax thresholds until 2028 on the number of people who will begin paying (a) Income Tax and (b) the higher rate of Income Tax in each financial
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 13 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of freezing Income Tax thresholds until 2028 on the number of people who will begin paying (a) Income Tax and (b) the higher rate of Income Tax in each financial
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Dec 2024
Answer published
The information requested is published as part of the OBR’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO). The published table sets out the effects of the threshold freeze on taxpayers, by showing estimated numbers with and without indexation of the thresholds and th...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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