Jonathan Edwards
Shadow PC Spokesperson (Treasury), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Business, Innovation and Skills), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Transport), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Wales), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Wales)
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue the Exchequer has raised through income tax from pensioners in each of the last five years.
David Gauke
The Exchequer Secretary
Estimates for the number of taxpayers of state pension age and their income tax liabilities for the years 2009-10 to 2013-14 are shown in the following table:
| Tax year | Number of taxpayers of state pension age (million) | Income tax liability (£ billion) |
| 2009-10(1) | 5.69 | 17.1 |
| 2010-11(1) | 6.01 | 17.1 |
| 2011-12(2) | 6.01 | 18.0 |
| 2012-13(2) | 5.85 | 18.2 |
| 2013-14(2) | 6.03 | 19.6 |
| (1) These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes for the relevant year. (2) Projected estimates based upon the 2010-11 Survey of Personal Incomes using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR's March 2013 economic and fiscal outlook. | ||
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