Corrections
25 July 2022
We have identified a processing error to the dataset for financial year ending 2020. This primarily affected original income, however a range of values across published tables have also been affected.
18 July 2023
Ongoing quality assurance identified a processing error relating to the dataset “The effects of taxes and benefits on household income” for financial year ending 2021. This affected post-tax and final income across a range of published tables. After correcting this minor error, revised UK household post-tax and final income remain within 0.1% of previously reported values. “Effects of taxes and benefits on UK household income: financial year ending 2021” headline statistics show a revised proportion of individuals receiving more in benefits than they paid in taxes of 55.0% (up from the previously reported 54.2%), and a revised Gini coefficient for final income inequality of 29.3 % (down from the previously reported 29.9%), an annual reduction of 1.6 percentage points (originally reported as a 1.0 percentage point reduction). We apologise for any inconvenience.
22 September 2023
A formatting error has been identified in Table 8 impacting indirect taxes as a percentage of gross income. This has since been corrected.
23 August 2024
Ongoing quality assurance identified a processing error relating to the dataset “The effects of taxes and benefits on household income” for financial year ending 2022. An error was identified in self-employment income, cash benefits and indirect taxes microdata, impacting a range of published tables. After correcting this minor error, revised UK final income remains within 0.3% of previously reported values. “Effects of taxes and benefits on UK household income: financial year ending 2022” headline statistics show a revised median household final income of £38,200 (up from previously reported £38,100), and that richest fifth of people in FYE 2022 paid 9.8% of equivalised disposable income on indirect taxes (up from previously reported 9.0%). We apologise for any inconvenience, data tables and main points have now been corrected.
Notices
30 May 2019
Data for the financial year ending 2018 are based on person-level analysis, while years previous are based on household-level, and are not directly comparable. Historical tables based on person-level, and household-level separately are published alongside this data
