Fiscal Facts

Tax tables

This section of the site contains some information about the UK tax system, both current tax rates and thresholds, and rates and nominal thresholds back to 1973 for the main direct and indirect taxes.

These tables were last updated in March 2007.

Recent headline tax rates (since 2000)

Tax measures introduced in each Budget and PBR (since 1979)

Composition of revenue (since 1978)

Direct taxes

Income tax, personal allowances, rates and limits

National Insurance, rates: employed and self-employed

Tax credits (child tax credit and working tax credit)

Indirect taxes

VAT

Excise duties (alcohol, petrol and tobacco)

Aggregates levy

Air passenger duty

Betting duty

Climate change levy

Insurance premium tax

Landfill tax

Vehicle excise duty

Capital taxes

Capital gains tax

Inheritance tax

Stamp duty and stamp duty land tax

Treatment of assets

Corporate taxes

Corporation tax, rates

North Sea oil taxation

Local taxes

Council tax