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Over six million people are paying higher or additional rate tax in the UK
New data from HMRC reveals there are now over six million people paying higher or additional rate tax in the UK.
Source: HMRC
In recent years, the end of June has been the time for HMRC to issue its annual statistics on taxpayer numbers. This series is more up to date than some of HMRC’s releases and includes a projection for the current tax year.
The latest set of data received more press attention than usual for several reasons:
This means there are more taxpayers than ever before and more of them are paying higher and additional rates due to a combination of two main factors:
The winner in all of this is the Treasury, so much so that there is now talk of tax cuts being announced in the Autumn Budget, if not sooner. As with July’s ‘tax cut’ in National Insurance contributions, any new income tax cut will be a reduction in the size of the previously planned increase.
Meanwhile, if you have become a higher rate taxpayer this year, you should make sure you are using all available reliefs and allowances to the full. The one piece of good news is that tax relief on your pension contributions has potentially doubled.
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