DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND WEALTH: TABLE 6 ROYAL COMMISION REPORT

HL Deb 14 November 1978 vol 396 c704WA

Lord VAIZEY

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will re-work Table 6 from the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth's Third Report on the Standing Reference to take account of National Insurance contributions.

Baroness BIRK

I regret that the available statistical sources do not at present readily lend themselves to the task of showing the effect on the income distribution of deducting National Insurance contributions as well as income tax. However, an indication of the combined impact of income tax and national insurance contributions on household incomes at different levels in 1976 can be found in an article entitled: "The effects of taxes and benefits on household income, 1976", published in the February 1978 edition ofEconomic Trends.