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Income Tax

Commons · Question 109970 · Tabled 2 Feb 2026 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 5 Feb 2026

Question

Asked by Gregory Campbell

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the change in the number of people who will be tax payers as a result of the freezing of personal allowances between 2024 and 2029.

Answer

Answered by Torsten Bell, 5 Feb 2026

The number of people forecast to pay Income Tax by marginal rate can be found in Table 3.19 of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2025 Economic and fiscal outlook - detailed forecast tables: receipts, linked below: https://obr.uk/download/nov...