Treasury written question – answered at on 5 January 2010.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the proportion of revenue accruing to the Exchequer through indirect taxation from persons in the (a) bottom quintile and (b) top quintile of earners.
Expenditure data are, conventionally, segmented by equivalised household income, rather than earner income. The proportions of indirect tax paid by the top and bottom quintile of all households ranked by equivalised disposable income can be calculated from the information provided in table 14A of "The effects of taxes and benefits on household income, 2006/07", available at
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/elmr/07_08/downloads/ELMR_Jul08_Jones.pdf
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