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Tax liabilities: 20p, 40p and 50p- who pays?
This spreadsheet from HMRC shows the number of taxpayers who pay the basic rate, ‘higher rate’ (40p) and the ‘additional rate’ (50p) broken down by region.
The relevant spreadsheets start on page 16.
Based on those stats, I’ve put together the table below showing the proportion of people in each region paying each rate of tax for 2011-12. All these numbers are in thousands.
Income Tax Liability Statistics December 2011
Region | All | 20p (basic rate) | 40p (higher rate) | 50p (additional rate) | 20p% | 40p% | 50p% |
North East | 1210 | 1080 | 101 | 5 | 89.26% | 9.35% | 0.41% |
North West | 3200 | 2770 | 318 | 18 | 86.56% | 11.48% | 0.56% |
Yorkshire & Humberside | 2370 | 2050 | 230 | 13 | 86.50% | 11.22% | 0.55% |
East Midlands | 2160 | 1850 | 232 | 12 | 85.65% | 12.54% | 0.56% |
West Midlands | 2530 | 2190 | 253 | 15 | 86.56% | 11.55% | 0.59% |
East England | 2850 | 2290 | 420 | 34 | 80.35% | 18.34% | 1.19% |
London | 3700 | 2840 | 670 | 94 | 76.76% | 23.59% | 2.54% |
South East | 4340 | 3390 | 720 | 67 | 78.11% | 21.24% | 1.54% |
South West | 2640 | 2220 | 295 | 17 | 84.09% | 13.29% | 0.64% |
Wales | 1380 | 1220 | 118 | 4 | 88.41% | 9.67% | 0.29% |
Scotland | 2570 | 2200 | 288 | 16 | 85.60% | 13.09% | 0.62% |
Northern Ireland | 737 | 652 | 64 | 4 | 88.47% | 9.82% | 0.54% |
TOTAL | 29687 | 24752 | 3709 | 299 | 83.38% | 14.98% | 1.01% |