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Income Tax: Wales

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of people in Wales that would be moved into higher rates of tax as a result of freezing of tax thresholds by 2030.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 25 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 27 Nov 2025
Answer: 3 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of people in Wales that would be moved into higher rates of tax as a result of freezing of tax thresholds by 2030.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2025
Answer published
The previous Government made the decision to maintain income tax thresholds at their current levels from April 2021 until April 2028. The number of people forecast to pay tax by marginal rate can be found in Table 3.19 in the OBR’s November 2025 Economic ...

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