Question follow-through · 46985

Pensioners: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners who will be paying income tax in the 2029-30 financial year.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 22 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 24 Apr 2025
Answer: 30 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners who will be paying income tax in the 2029-30 financial year.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
HMRC publishes the number of income tax payers by age. An estimate of the number of individuals of state pension age who are income taxpayers in financial year 2024/25 can be found in Table 2.1 of the income tax statistics and distributions collection pub...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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