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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
August Graham

Fact check: The proportion of adults paying income tax has risen since 2014

Many people in the UK do not pay income tax (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

A widely shared online post claimed that 43% of working-age adults in the UK do not make enough money to pay income tax.

“In the UK, 43% of working-age adults do not earn enough to pay income tax (<£12,570),” the poster claimed.

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