Income Tax
Commons · Question 2703 · Tabled 19 May 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 28 May 2026
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people paying the higher rate of income tax in the most recent tax year.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 28 May 2026
In 2023/24, the number of people estimated to have paid the higher rate of income tax can be found in Table 3.4 of HMRC’s Personal Income Statistics, linked below: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69f1f12d2fae53a03709682f/Collated_Tables_3_1...