HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)

“It expects to raise an extra £10bn in income tax in 2010-11, nearly all from 40% and 50% rate taxpayers.”

“The figures indicate that the 13,000 people earning at least £1m a year will also pay, on average, just over £1m each in income tax.”

“It predicts that this financial year, the total number of income tax payers will rise by 400,000 to 30.6 million.”

“There will be a modest 100,000 increase in the number of basic rate payers to 26.4 million, who together will pay an extra £1.2bn, thus handing over a total of £68.1bn.”

“But the number of people in the 40% higher rate band and new 50% additional rate bracket will jump by 192,000 to 3.412 million.”

“The 40% higher tax rate is levied on taxable incomes above £37,400 and the 50% rate is now levied on taxable incomes above £150,000 a year.”

“Whereas last year higher-rate payers handed over £84bn in income tax to the Revenue (56% of the total)”

“the combined higher and additional rate payers are predicted to pay a total of £92.7bn this year.”

“That is £9bn more than last year and will amount to 66% of the government's total income tax stream this year.”

“Overall, the government's income tax take will rise by an extra £10bn this year to £161bn, almost back to the levels of 2007-08.”

“anyone earning more than £150,000 will pay 33% of their incomes as income tax this year”

“those earning more than a million pounds will pay 44% on average.”

“Last year, the 14,000 people who earned more than £1 million paid an average £828,000 each in income tax.”

“This year, the 13,000 in that bracket are likely to pay an average of £1.02 million each - 23% more in the space of just one year.”

“It thought that the number of income tax payers would fall by three million from a peak of 32.3 million in 2007-08 to 29.3 million in 2009-10.”

“Within that drop, the number of higher rate payers was expected to fall by nearly a million, from 3.89 million to 2.91 million.”

“HMRC now reckons that in 2009-10 there were 30.2 million income tax payers, nearly a million more than it was originally forecasting.”

“Within that total, the number of basic rate payers went up by 2.2 million - more than previously predicted - to 26.3 million, while the number of higher rate payers did indeed fall - from 3.87 millio…”

“The overall effect was that the government's total take from income tax fell from a record £163bn in 2007-08 to an estimated £151bn in 2009-10.”

“The most recent figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) showed that completed sales in the UK jumped by 22% in March from the month before to 72,000.”

“However, apart from last year, that was the lowest March figure since the HMRC's current records started in 1978.”

“The amount of money paid into personal and stakeholder pension plans fell by £1.1bn, or 5%, during the recession, according to figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).”

“Employees, employers and the self-employed paid in £19.7bn between them in 2008-09, down from £20.8bn the year before.”

“This was the first drop since the mid-1990s and was mainly due to lower employee contributions.”

“The amount of money paid in by the self-employed also fell, by £200m to £3.7bn.”

“while employer contributions rose, from £7.4bn to £7.7bn.”