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Not sure if this fits the sub, but I thought it would be interesting

Wealth share of top 1% has been stable for a few decades and dropped dramatically before that
Average and lower earners pay lowest tax rate they have in many decades
Top 1% pays 28.5% of all income tax while receive 13% of income, top 10% pays 60% of all income tax, bottom 50% pay 10%
Top 1% pays significantly more income tax today than they did couple of decades ago
Average tax amount paid by a household in each income decile group

Also from a Freedom of Information request to HMRC:

The top 0.1% earn 5% of all income paid, and stump up 11% of all income tax
The highest paid 4,000 people - the top 0.01% - earn 2.3% of all income paid but pay 5% of all tax collected

Income tax here and in charts is a broad category that is not limited to salary you get from permanent employment. It covers all forms of income, including tax on income from business, property, interest, etc. From the HMRC's definition:

>Income Tax liabilities are classified into three broad sources of income assessable for Income Tax: earnings, savings interest and dividends. Earnings are defined as including pay from employment, profits from self-employment, private and occupational pensions, retirement annuities, state retirement pensions, foreign income, taxable benefits, income from property, and taxable social security income.

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