HC Deb 21 January 2002 vol 378 cc645-6W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of the total revenue from income tax was paid by the top five per cent. of taxpayers in each of the last four years. [26281]

Dawn Primarolo

I refer the hon. Member to "Inland Revenue Statistics" table 2.4, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House. The latest version can be accessed on the Inland Revenue website www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/income_tax/it_t04_1.htm.

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the capital gains tax receipts and the corporation tax receipts were for each of the Inland Revenue districts in(a) Greater London, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in current and in constant prices for each of the last four years. [26225]

Dawn Primarolo

Total receipts of capital gains tax and of corporation tax in each of the last four years are given on the Inland Revenue website at: http:// www. inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/tax_t02_1.htm.

Receipts information in the detail requested is not available.

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people paid inheritance tax in each of the last 10 years; and how much tax was paid in each year; [26340]

(2) what the total annual revenue yield was from stamp duty on property purchases in each of the last 10 years; [26336]

(3) what the total payments were of capital gains tax; and how many people made them in each of the last five years. [26262]

Dawn Primarolo

The requested information on receipts of tax and number of taxpayers is available in tables 1.2 and 1.4 of the online edition of Inland Revenue Statistics—http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats. Further breakdowns of stamp duty yield are given in table 15.1, with earlier years in the equivalent table of the paper publication, Inland Revenue Statistics 1997.