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Tax

What Britain is taxed: receipts by tax, rates and thresholds, the value of frozen thresholds, and the tax burden measured against the economy.

• Total HMRC receiptsYear ending March 2026 · up 9.2% on a year earlier£937.8bn
• Income Tax receiptsYear ending March 2026 · up 8.0% on a year earlier£326.9bn
• National Insurance receiptsYear ending March 2026 · up 16.4% on a year earlier£200.8bn
• VAT receiptsYear ending March 2026 · up 5.2% on a year earlier£179.9bn
• Corporation Tax receiptsYear ending March 2026 · up 4.6% on a year earlier£95.1bn
• Capital Gains Tax receiptsYear ending March 2026 · up 77.6% on a year earlier£24.3bn
• Inheritance Tax receiptsYear ending March 2026 · up 2.6% on a year earlier£8.5bn
• Stamp Duty Land Tax receiptsYear ending March 2026 · up 9.2% on a year earlier£15.2bn
• Fuel duty receiptsYear ending March 2026 · up 0.8% on a year earlier£24.6bn
• Tobacco duty receiptsYear ending March 2026 · down 4.5% on a year earlier£7.6bn
• Central government receiptsJuly 2026 · up 4.6% on a year earlier£104.3bn