Income Tax

(asked on 24th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of taxpayers who are paying an effective marginal rate of tax on income in excess of (a) 40, (b) 50, (c) 60 and (d) 70 per cent once account has been taken of tax arrangements relating to pension contributions in the most recent tax year for which data is available.


Answered by
John Glen Portrait
John Glen
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
This question was answered on 27th April 2018

HMRC publishes statistics on income tax liabilities, including by marginal income tax rates. These can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-tax-liabilities-by-taxpayers-marginal-rate

The Reduced (tapered) pensions annual allowance was introduced in 2016-17 for individuals with income of over £150,000 including the value of any pensions contributions.

HMRC does not hold information on the effective marginal rate of tax of individuals who have been subject to the Reduced (tapered) pensions annual allowance, as the effective rate an individual faces depends on numerous other factors.

The Tax Impact and Information Note for this measure, published in 2015, detailed that around 300,000 pension savers could be affected by this measure:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensions-tapered-annual-allowance/pensions-tapered-annual-allowance

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