Income Tax: Tax Allowances

(asked on 27th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many workers earned below the personal income tax threshold in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland, for the tax year 2018/19.


Answered by
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Lord Agnew of Oulton
This question was answered on 11th December 2020

The table below sets out the number of paid employees residing in English regions who were paid below £12,500 from April 2019 to March 2020, from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.

Region

Employees

North East

423,000

North West

1,292,000

Yorkshire and the Humber

959,000

East Midlands

881,000

West Midlands

1,050,000

East

1,128,000

London

1,777,000

South East

1,639,000

South West

1,038,000

The table below sets out the number of paid employees in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from April 2018 to March 2019 who were paid below £11,850, from HMRC’s PAYE RTI data.

Country

Employees

England

9,900,000

Scotland

893,000

Wales

503,000

Northern Ireland

301,000

Please note:

(1) These figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand employees.

(2) These figures are as accurate as reported through PAYE RTI. However, PAYE schemes not paying any of their employees above the NICs threshold are not obliged to report employees' earnings through RTI. Additionally, PAYE RTI does not include income from self-employment, or any other source of income. Therefore, some employees may be excluded from these estimates and other employees may be included but have total income from all sources above the personal allowance.

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