#fiscal-risk

#fiscal-risk

The top 1% of taxpayers are responsible for around a third of the total paid in Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax (CGT), new data from Wealth Club, the UK's largest non-advisory investment service for tax-efficient and private market investments, shows. Its Freedom of Information request to HMRC found 500,000 individuals paid £93.828 billion in income tax and CGT in the 2023/24 tax year equivalent to 33% of the total £288.5 billion raised.

One scenario is that growth continues more or less as it has for the last 20 years. If so, the current federal fiscal trajectory is unsustainable,