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Originally Posted by Mr K

any surplus he'll give to the rich.

In 2013-14, the best-paid 1 per cent of workers will contribute 29.8 per cent of all income tax, the figures show.

To qualify for that top 1 per cent, an individual would have to have an income of £160,000 a year. People who earn more than £1 million a year will contribute 11.8 per cent of all tax.

Total income tax revenue for HMRC is about £150 billion a year.

The share of total income tax paid by the best-paid has risen in recent years.

In 1997, it was 20 per cent; in 2007, before the financial crisis began, the figure was 24.4 per cent.

According to HMRC, there are about 29 million individual income taxpayers in 2010-11.

Of those, about 28 million pay the basic rate, while 4.3 million are higher rate taxpayers. Roughly 290,000 pay the top rate of tax, now 45 per cent.

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Funny sort of giving to the rich seeing as their contribution to income tax has relentlessly risen over the last two decades.