{"id":281868,"date":"2025-04-14T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/keir-starmer-paid-54718-in-tax-last-year\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:57:07","slug":"keir-starmer-paid-54718-in-tax-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/keir-starmer-paid-54718-in-tax-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer paid \u00a354,718 in tax last year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer paid \u00a354,718 in income tax in 2023\/24, according to a document released by the government.<\/p>\n

A summary shows he paid the tax on \u00a3152,225 of income in the financial year ending 5 April 2024, a period when Labour was in opposition.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir received most of his income from his role as an MP and smaller amounts from book royalties and \u00a35,174 of interest on money in a savings account.<\/p>\n

Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner have also published summaries of their tax affairs for the same year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reeves earned a total of \u00a391,758 and paid \u00a324,215 in income tax.<\/p>\n

The chancellor received \u00a312,372 from self-employment income, which was related to book royalties and audiobook fees.<\/p>\n

Rayner earned a total of \u00a385,205 and paid \u00a321,514 in income tax.<\/p>\n

All of Rayner’s income and taxable benefits came from her role as an MP.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir’s tax bill for 2023\/24 was lower than the previous financial year, when he paid \u00a352,688 in capital gains tax after the December 2022 sale of a field partly owned by his father’s estate.<\/p>\n

His tax bill in 2022\/23 was five times lower than former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s for the same year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sir Keir’s latest summary<\/a> of his UK taxable income, capital gains and tax paid over the last tax year as reported to HM Revenue & Customs, was prepared by his chartered accountants.<\/p>\n

David Cameron became the first UK prime minister to publish a summary of his tax returns in 2016, after revelations about his late father’s offshore fund.<\/p>\n

Theresa May released her tax return during her campaign to be Tory leader in 2016, but did not do so when she was prime minister.<\/p>\n

The two prime ministers who preceded Sunak – Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, who held the post for less than two months – did not publish their tax returns.<\/p>\n

Sunak and Jeremy Hunt published tax figures while they served as prime minister and chancellor respectively.<\/p>\n

Reeves had initially said she had no plans to publish details of her tax affairs when asked whether she would do so earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Bur Reeves later said: “I’m very happy to release my tax return in accordance with what’s happened in the recent past, and I’ll be doing that alongside the prime minister in due course.”<\/p>\n

The Conservatives have previously said their leader Kemi Badenoch had no plans to publish details of her 2023\/24 tax return.<\/p>\n

The BBC has asked the Conservative Party for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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