Fiscal facts: tax and benefits
This page provides links to facts and figures about UK taxes and benefits.
These notes describe the UK tax and benefit systems respectively:
The spreadsheets below give give current and historical rates and thresholds for the main direct and indirect taxes; and benefit and tax credit rates, numbers of claimants and expenditure levels.
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Taxes
Recent headline tax rates
since 2000
Tax measures introduced in each Budget, PBR and Autumn Statement
since 1979
Income tax
Personal allowances, rates and limits
National Insurance
Rates: employed and self-employed
Tax credits
Child tax credit and working tax credit
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
Benefits
UK expenditure on benefits
Nominal terms, real terms and % of GDP
Job Seeker's Allowance and Unemploment Benefit
Rates and claimants
Retirement Pension
Rates and claimants
Pension Credit
Rates and claimants
Income Support and Supplementary Benefit
Personal allowances, premiums and claimants
Housing Benefit
Personal allowances, premiums and claimants
Council Tax Benefit
Personal allowances, premiums and claimants
Social Fund, including Winter Fuel Payments and Sure State Maternity Grants
Awards and amounts
Universal Credit
Allowances, premiums and claimants
Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Invalidity Benefit and Sickness Benefit
Rates and Claimants
Disability Living Allowance, Mobility Allowance and Attendance Allowance
Rates and claimants
Carer's Allowance
Rates and claimants
War pensions
Rates and supplements
Industrial Injury Disablement Pension and Industrial Death Benefit
Rates and supplements
Widow's Allowance and Bereavement Allowance
Rates
