How income is redistributed through taxes and benefits and how income inequality has changed over time for different types of households.
Publications
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Effects of taxes and benefits on UK household income: financial year ending 2015
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.
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The effects of taxes and benefits on household income, methodology and coherence: financial year ending 2015
Data
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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.
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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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