Revenue details break down revenues by type and by level of government. You can also drill down to view more detail by clicking the [+] control on each line.
Revenue Units: By default, public revenue is displayed in billions of pounds. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select millions of pounds, percent of GDP, percent of central government revenue, and percent of total revenue. Fiscal Year: The default year displayed is the current HM Treasury fiscal year. But you can select any year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. You can increase or decrease the year using the yr text links in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in 0 are shown. Select a year to get close, then select the year you want. Pie Chart: You can select a pie chart. You can create a pie chart for central government, local authority, and overall revenue/revenue. | ||
GDP: £2,087.6 billion | United Kingdom Central Government and Local Authority Revenue -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2021 +1yr +5yr Amounts in £ billion | Pop: 68.1 million |
Central (2) | Gen. Gov.(2) | Local (2) | Total | charts | ||||
[+] Income and Capital Taxes | 264.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 264.6 | ||||
[+] National Insurance | 144.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 144.6 | ||||
[+] Indirect Taxes | 246.3 | 0.0 | 36.0 | 282.2 | ||||
[+] Bar Chart: Click on a chart icon to display a bar chart. There are chart icons along the base of the table; they create charts to depict the numbers in the chart columns. There are also chart icons along the right edge of the table; they create charts to depict the numbers in the table rows. [+] Drill-down: Click on the [+] to drill down to more detailed numbers on public revenue. | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
[+] Business and Other Revenue | 65.0 | 0.0 | 15.2 | 80.2 | ||||
[+] Balance | 13.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 14.0 | ||||
[+] Total Direct Revenue: Start chart | 733.7 | 0.0 | 51.8 | 785.5 | ||||
[+] Net Public Debt | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2,153.2 | ||||
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Key: Pie Chart: You can select a pie chart. You can create a pie chart for central government, local authority, and overall revenue/revenue. GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables | Switch to spending |
The table shows overall public revenuecentral government and local authoritiesin the United Kingdom for the specified fiscal year. Government revenue totals are aggregated for each major revenue type.
All outlays for British public revenue prior to 2025 are outturn. More recent revenue, including future years out to 2028, are estimated outturn, planned, or guesstimated.
Public sector revenue between 1947 through 2028 is based on ONS data for historical revenue and OBR data for estimated revenue.
You can use controls on the table to change the year or to drill down to view more detailed revenue information. You can also view the revenue data as percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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Outturn vs. Plan: Public revenue data in ukpublicrevenue.co.uk includes public revenue outturns and also future revenue in three categories: estimated outturn, planned, and guesstimated. Records of recent revenue are more detailed than historical records of earlier times.
Public Revenue Updates: The historical revenue numbers since 1947 are based on the Office for National Statistics PSF time series dataset. The current estimated revenue numbers are based on the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2017 Economic and fiscal outlook – charts and tables: fiscal. The next update to historical revenue numbers will be made in April 2025. The next update to estimated revenue numbers will be made in March 2026.
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Detailed table of revenue data sources here.
Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.
Central government revenue data begins in 1692.
Local authority revenue data begins in 1868.
GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
Revenue: OBR March 2018 Economic and fiscal outlook – charts and tables: fiscal
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank
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On March 16, 2024 we updated UK revenue forecast data for 2023-24 to 2026-27 from the Office of Budget Responsibility's March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook report in a zip file labeled "March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook - charts and tables (zip file)" and a spreadsheet file named "Annex_A_charts_and_tables_March_2024.xlsx" and Table A.5: Current Receipts in tab "TA.5".
2022-23 Forecast | March 2023 £ billion | March 2024 £ billion |
Central Government | £951.9 | £987.4 |
Local Authorities | £68.1 | £670.6 |
Total UK Revenue | £1,020.0 | £1,058.0 |
On March 16, 2024 we updated UK deficit forecast data for 2023-24 to 2028-29 from the Office of Budget Responsibility's March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook report Table 6.5 Components of Net Borrowing in tab "6.5" in a zip file labeled "March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook - detailed forecast tables (zip file)" and a spreadsheet file named "Detailed_forecast_tables_Aggregates_March_2024.xlsx".
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