PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands (8 January 2019)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were placed in the higher tax threshold in each of the last 10 years.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

The estimated number of taxpayers liable for tax at the higher rate are published in the HMRC National Statistics table 2.1, available here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/710887/Table_2.1.pdf
These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI) outturn data up to 2015-16. The 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 estimates are based upon the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes projected using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s March 2018 economic and fiscal outlook.
Answered by:
Sir Mel Stride (Conservative)
11 January 2019