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<p>The number of households with a single-earner income of over £50,000 is based on
Department for Work and Pensions analysis of Households Below Average Income (HBAI)
data sourced from the 2017-18 Family Resources Survey (FRS).</p><p> </p><p>The survey
sample sizes are too small to produce robust estimates at local authority or constituency
level. The Department for Work and Pensions estimate that in the UK in 2017-18 there
were 2.7m households with one person earning over £50,000 per year from employment
(either as an employee or self-employed). Of these, 700,000 households contained only
one person in employment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has made substantial
increases to the personal allowance and higher rate threshold in recent years. In
April 2019, the Government increased the personal allowance to £12,500 and the higher
rate threshold to £50,000. This ensured that nearly one million fewer people pay the
higher rate of tax compared to 2015-16 and that a typical higher rate taxpayer pays
over £1,800 less income tax than in 2010-11.</p>
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