Income Tax

HC Deb 10 June 2002 vol 386 c865W

Mr. Evans

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people are expected to pay income tax in each of the next four years. [55413]

Dawn Primarolo

Available estimates of the number of income taxpayers are given in the table.

Year	Number (thousands)
1999–2000	27,000
2000–011	27,900
2001–022	27,800
2002–032	28,300
2003–042	29,700
1 Provisional
2 Projected

These estimates are based upon the Survey of Personal Incomes and are consistent with the April 2002 Budget.