Two Million More Higher-Rate Taxpayers Since 2020
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- Category: United Kingdom
- Language: EN
- Published: 2026-04-29 11:45 UTC
- Sources: The Independent
The number of higher-rate taxpayers in the UK has risen by nearly two million since the start of the decade, driven by income threshold freezes.
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