Written questions

Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands

Commons · Question 95336 · Tabled 27 Nov 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 2 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Lake

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of additional people who will paying the (a) basic rate and (b) higher rate of income tax broken down by country, in the context of the extension of the income tax threshold

Answer

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 2 Dec 2025

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 and fiscal outlook - detailed forecast tables: receipts, linked below: https://obr.uk/download/november-2025-economic-and-fiscal-outlo...