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Income Tax payers by marginal rate, UK

The number of Income Tax payers in the UK by their marginal rate – starting, savers, basic, higher and additional – in each tax year since 1990 to 1991 for which HM Revenue and Customs gives outturn figures, from its Income Tax liabilities statistics.

All Income Tax payers

36,700,000

2023/24 · liabilities of £274,000 million

Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:33 UTC
Income Tax payers by marginal rate, UK
  • All Income Tax payers
  • Lower or starting rate
  • Savers rate
  • Basic rate
  • Higher rate
  • Additional rate
0k10,000k20,000k30,000k40,000k1990/911996/972002/032008/092014/152023/24

Source: HM Revenue and Customs. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data table

34 periods, newest first

PeriodAll Income Tax payersLower or starting rateSavers rateBasic rateHigher rateAdditional rate
2023/2436,700,000–652,00029,400,0005,760,000893,000
2022/2334,500,000–607,00028,200,0005,100,000570,000
2021/2233,000,000–607,00027,400,0004,430,000520,000
2020/2131,700,000–635,00026,600,0003,980,000433,000
2019/2031,500,000–728,00026,500,0003,830,000421,000
2018/1931,600,000–680,00026,300,0004,230,000399,000
2017/1831,200,000–625,00026,000,0004,210,000392,000
2016/1731,200,000–588,00025,900,0004,410,000356,000
2015/1631,000,000–806,00025,300,0004,510,000362,000
2014/1530,700,000285,000686,00025,100,0004,300,000328,000
2013/1430,400,000289,000686,00024,900,0004,200,000311,000
2012/1330,600,000270,000630,00025,700,0003,720,000273,000
2011/1230,800,000318,000621,00026,000,0003,570,000262,000
2010/1131,300,000276,000623,00027,100,0003,020,000236,000
2009/1030,600,000163,000602,00026,600,0003,190,000–
2008/09––––––
2007/0832,500,0003,440,0001,070,00024,100,0003,870,000–
2006/0731,800,0003,450,000927,00023,700,0003,770,000–
2005/0631,100,0003,490,000866,00023,100,0003,590,000–
2004/0530,300,0003,570,000833,00022,500,0003,330,000–
2003/0428,500,0003,220,000734,00021,600,0002,960,000–
2002/0328,900,0003,100,000730,00022,000,0003,040,000–
2001/0228,600,0003,030,000857,00021,700,0003,000,000–
2000/0129,300,0002,820,0001,010,00022,600,0002,880,000–
1999/0027,200,0002,280,000954,00021,400,0002,510,000–
1998/9926,900,0008,090,000–16,500,0002,350,000–
1997/9826,200,0007,690,000–16,400,0002,120,000–
1996/9725,700,0007,350,000–16,200,0002,080,000–
1995/9625,800,0005,770,000–18,000,0002,130,000–
1994/9525,300,0005,180,000–18,200,0002,000,000–
1993/9425,000,0005,390,000–17,900,0001,740,000–
1992/9325,400,0004,240,000–19,400,0001,720,000–
1991/9225,700,000––24,100,0001,620,000–
1990/9126,100,000––24,400,0001,700,000–

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Source and licence

Publisher
HM Revenue and Customs
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https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-tax-statistics-and-distributions
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Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Verification

Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:33 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:33 UTC; 204 of 204 figures matched the live source.

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PassProvenance recordedHM Revenue and Customs; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:13:52Z; 2 raw file(s)
PassRaw files match recorded SHA-2562 of 2 files intact
PassRe-parsing raw files reproduces figures204 of 204 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation and outturn and liabilities match
PassFigures are finite numbers204 figures, 0 invalid
PassLive source matches every figure204 of 204 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation and outturn and liabilities match
PassGOV.UK table is currentlatest period 2024-04-05 ended 947 days before retrieval (limit 1250), from Collated Tables 2.1 to 2.6
PassHMRC's standalone Table 2.1 agrees407 of 407 cells of Table 2.1 in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a54e2a9a4890e65cce64dd3/Table_2.1_Number_of_individual_Income_Tax_Payers.ods are the collated tables'
PassThe release's bulletin agrees1 of 1 figures the bulletin https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-tax-liabilities-statistics-tax-year-2023-to-2024-to-tax-year-2026-to-2027/summary-statistics states match, each rounded half up as it rounds them
PassTable 2.1 adds up99 of 99 cases of the years' payers by rate, by sex and by age add up to all payers, in thousands, within each figure's own rounding
PassTable 2.5 gives Table 2.1's payers4 of 4 cases of 2023/24's payers by rate in Table 2.5 are Table 2.1's
PassSource page answershttps://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-tax-statistics-and-distributions – HTTP 200

Notes

  • Individuals who pay Income Tax in the UK by their marginal rate, the highest rate on their income, in thousands, as HMRC's Table 2.1 gives them from its Survey of Personal Incomes. The hub shows the tax years HMRC gives as outturn, the first named in the release's title; the later years in the table are HMRC's projections, which it shows apart.
  • The rates have changed: a lower rate until 1998 to 1999, a starting rate from 1999 to 2000, which from 2008 to 2009 counted only people whose taxable income was savings, a savers rate from 2016 to 2017 and an additional rate from 2010 to 2011. HMRC gives no figures for 2008 to 2009. Scottish taxpayers are placed on the UK's rates by where their income falls, as HMRC's notes set out.
  • The headline gives HMRC's total Income Tax liabilities for the outturn year, after allowances, from its Tables 2.5 and 2.6.