HC Deb 17 March 1952 vol 497 cc177-8W
Mr. Robson Brown

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the annual receipts from Pay As You Earn contributions for each year since the introduction of the arrangement; and what were the annual amounts reclaimed for the same period.

Mr. Boyd-Carpenter

The receipts from Pay As You Earn for each year since its inception are shown in the table below. These are the actual amounts received from employers after allowing for the repayments of tax made by them in the course of the operation of the Pay As You Earn system; it is not possible to distinguish these repayments separately. The table also shows the estimated amounts of repayments of Pay As You Earn tax which were made by inspectors of taxes and repayments through the Employment Exchanges.

P.A.Y.E.* RECEIPTS AND REPAYMENTS OF TAX
Year Tax Received Estimated Tax Repaid
£ million £ million
1944–1945 490 10
1945–1946 581 20
1946–1947 425 20
1947–1948 443 15
1948–1949 446 14
1949–1950 491 16
1950–1951 493 19
*The P.A.Y.E. system did not apply to the pay, pensions etc. of the Forces for years prior to 1947–1948.

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