Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what change there has been on the level of income tax paid by basic rate taxpayers in each year since 2011.

This question was answered on 11th December 2014

Estimates of the amounts of income tax paid by taxpayers at the basic rate and other rates of tax in the years 2011-12 to 2014-15 are published in HM Revenue and Customs’s (HMRC’s) National Statistics table 2.5 which is available at the following internet address;

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306857/Table_2.5.pdf

These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI) outturn data up to 2011-12, and then projected to 2014-15 in line with the Office for Budget Responsibility's March 2014 economic and fiscal outlook.