Effects of taxes and benefits on UK household income: financial year ending 2017

Summary

Analysis of how household incomes in the UK are affected by direct and indirect taxes and benefits received in cash or kind, and the changing levels of income inequality over time.

Publications

• Effects of taxes and benefits on UK household income: financial year ending 2017

  Analysis of how household incomes in the UK are affected by direct and indirect taxes and benefits received in cash or kind, and the changing levels of income inequality over time.

• The effects of taxes and benefits on household income, financial year ending 2018: technical report

  The redistribution effects on households of direct and indirect taxation and benefits received in cash or kind analysed by household type, and the changing levels of income inequality over time.

• Transformation of ONS household financial statistics: ONS statistical outputs workplan, 2018 to 2019

  Plans to transform ONS household financial statistics and a timeline of statistical and affected research outputs due to be published over next 18 months.

Data

• Effects of taxes and benefits on household income

  Average annual incomes, taxes and benefits, and household characteristics of retired and non-retired households in the UK. Data for financial years, by quintile and decile groups, country and region and tenure type.

• Effects of taxes and benefits on household income: historical household-level datasets

  Main tables from the Effects of taxes and benefits on household income publication from 1977, including average incomes, taxes and benefits and household characteristics of all, retired and non-retired households in the UK by quintile and decile groups.

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