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Mr. Allen
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give (a) the percentage of average wages paid in tax of all kinds for each year since 1979, (b) the percentage paid in income tax and (c) the percentage paid in indirect taxes for each of those years.
Mr. Norman Lamont
The figures in the table refer to a married man on average male earnings. It is assumed that his wife has no earnings, that he is not contracted out of SERPS and that they have no children. The figures do not include domestic rates.
| Taxes as a percentage of gross earnings for a married man on average earnings | |||
| Income tax NIC and indirect taxes | Income tax | Indirect taxes | |
| 1978–79 | 39·6 | 21·3 | 11·8 |
| 1979–80 | 39·1 | 19·8 | 12·8 |
| 1980–81 | 40·0 | 20·6 | 12·7 |
| Income tax NIC and indirect taxes | Income tax | Indirect taxes | |
| 1981–82 | 42·4 | 21·5 | 13·1 |
| 1982–83 | 42·4 | 21·0 | 12·6 |
| 1983–84 | 42·4 | 20·6 | 12·8 |
| 1984–85 | 42·5 | 20·2 | 13·3 |
| 1985–86 | 42·3 | 20·0 | 13·3 |
| 1986–87 | 41·7 | 19·4 | 13·3 |
| 1987–88 | 40·5 | 18·4 | 13·1 |
| 1988–89 | 39·3 | 17·0 | 13·3 |