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Mr. Gibb
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the number and proportion of pensioners who would pay (a) no income tax and (b) income tax at (i) 10 per cent., (ii) 20 per cent., (iii) 23 per cent. and (iv) 40 per cent. in 1999–2000 or the latest year for which figures are available if people aged over 65 years received only the basic personal tax allowance. [78974]
Dawn Primarolo
Estimates for 1999–2000 are given in the table.
| Excluding age related personal allowance | Including age related personal allowance as enhanced in the Budget | |||
| Marginal rate of tax | Number of pensioners1(thousands) | Proportion (percentage) | Number of pensioners1(thousands) | Proportion (percentage) |
| Non-taxpayer | 6,100 | 57 | 7,000 | 65 |
| 10 per cent. | 550 | 5 | 450 | 4 |
| 20 per cent. | 750 | 7 | 750 | 7 |
| 23 per cent. | 3,150 | 29 | 2,350 | 22 |
| 40 per cent. | 150 | 1 | 150 | 1 |
| Total | 10,700 | 10,700 | ||
| 1Women aged 60 and over and men aged 65 and over | ||||