Ministerial Corrections
Thursday 11 June 2009
Treasury
Taxation: Pensioners
Steve Webb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the answer of 11 February 2004, Official Report, columns 1489-90W, on pensions (taxation), if he will estimate the number of pensioners paying income tax at the (a) higher and (b) basic rate in each year since 2001-02; and what percentage of (i) all pensioner taxpayers and (ii) all pensioners these figures represent in each year. [264595]
[Official Report, 23 March 2009, Vol. 490, c. 95W.]
Letter of correction from Ian Pearson:
Errors have been identified in the tables that were presented in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Northavon (Steve Webb) on 23 March 2009. Both tables contained two entries for the year 2003-04. The final entry for the year 2007-08 in the first table for higher rate taxpayers was incorrect, and the final three entries for the years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 in the second table were also incorrect.
The correct answer is as follows:
Ian Pearson: The information requested is in the following tables.
| Higher rate taxpayers | |||
| Number of pensioners paying HR income tax (thousand) | Proportion of all pensioner taxpayers (percentage) | Proportion of all pensioners (percentage) | |
| Non-higher rate taxpayers | |||
| Number of pensioners paying non-HR income tax (thousand) | Proportion of all pensioner taxpayers (percentage) | Proportion of all pensioners (percentage) | |
| Notes: 1. Figures up to 2006-07 are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes in that year. 2. Figures for 2007-08 are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes in 2006-07 projected forward one year in line with Pre-Budget 2008 report. 3. Figures for the number of pensioners paying income tax have been rounded to the nearest 10,000. 4. Pensioners have been defined as men aged 65 and over and women aged 60 and over. 5. All pensioners figures are mid-year population estimates supplied by the Office for National Statistics. | |||
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