Question follow-through · 99483
Income Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the number of people paying (a) basic rate, (b) higher rate, and (c) additional rate of Income Tax between 2020 and 2025.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the number of people paying (a) basic rate, (b) higher rate, and (c) additional rate of Income Tax between 2020 and 2025.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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17 Dec 2025
Answer published
The number of individuals in each of the three main Income Tax rate bands from 2020 to 2025 is published in Table 2.1 of HMRC’s Accredited official statistics. Updated forecasts are published in Table 3.19 of the OBR’s November 2025 Economic and fiscal ou...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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