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date	07/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are currently paying the additional rate of income tax; and how much they raised from this band over the last financial year.
tabling member printed	Lord Risby
uin	HL7879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>The table below contains estimates of additional rate taxpayer numbers and liabilities taxed at the additional rate for the 2019-20 financial year:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>Number of taxpayers with total taxable income above the additional rate threshold and tax liabilities at the additional rate</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of taxpayers (thousands)</p></td><td><p>450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total additional rate tax liabilities (£ million)</p></td><td><p>42,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tax on earnings (£ million)</p></td><td><p>35,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tax on savings (£ million)</p></td><td><p>856</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tax on dividends (£ million)</p></td><td><p>6,290</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Taxpayer numbers and liabilities are rounded to three significant figures. Figures may not sum due to rounding.</li><li>The figures are based on outturn data derived from the 2017-18 Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI) and projected using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2020 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p>The estimated number of income tax payers, and liabilities by tax band are published in HMRC’s Income Tax Liabilities Statistics publication.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 16/09/2020 11:07:23 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	139 label Biography information for Lord Risby

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registered interest
date	14/07/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of income tax revenue lost to the public purse from the underpayment of the national minimum wage in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	73850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>HMRC enforce the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) in line with the law and policy set out by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).</p><p> </p><p>The Low Pay Commission (LPC) publishes an annual report that provides an assessment of the nature and extent of NMW underpayment. The latest report published by the LPC in April 2019 can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/797675/Non-compliance_and_enforcement_of_the_National_Minimum_Wage_WEB.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/797675/Non-compliance_and_enforcement_of_the_National_Minimum_Wage_WEB.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>There is no robust estimate available of the income tax revenue lost as a result of NMW underpayment.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/07/2020 15:59:08 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

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registered interest
date	14/07/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of income tax revenue lost to the public purse from workers being wrongly categorised as self-employed in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	73851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling false self-employment. HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) take a risk-based approach to investigating employers who may have misclassified individuals for tax purposes. In these cases, HMRC establish the facts and take steps to ensure the right tax and National Insurance contributions are paid.</p><p> </p><p>Income Tax and National Insurance contributions lost due to false self-employment are part of the tax gap related to employers. HMRC publish an assessment of the tax gap: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps</a>.</p><p> </p><p>A separate estimate of the tax gap relating to false self-employment is not available.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/07/2020 16:13:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald