This section contains statistics on identified personal wealth in the UK, including information on the distribution of wealth, liquid wealth, the assets held by estates and how those vary by age and gender. The statistics are based on Inheritance Tax returns, and more information on this can be found in the published commentary.
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If you want to register an interest in this data and/or provide HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) with feedback please use the link below. It will help HMRC understand who users are, and HMRC will then inform you if there is a consultation on the statistics that would be of interest to you. If you have already given HMRC your details via the wealth consultation and said that you would like to hear from HMRC in the future then please note that you would not need to register again.
User registration (Opens new window)
Commentary of Personal Wealth Statistics 2008-2010 (PDF 171K)
This publication is based on a revised methodology as described in the latest release. The changes to the methodology follow a user consultation (for more information please see the published consultation proposal and 'consultation results'. HMRC is grateful to all who replied to the consultation and hope that the new publication better meets your needs, but would welcome further feedback via the contacts page or you can send HMRC feedback using the feedback form.
Proposal for HMRC personal wealth statistics
Consultation results (PDF 53K)
National and official statistics - contacts
HMRC official statistics feedback form
If you are interested in accessing the statistics published using the previous methodology, which includes a longer time series of historical information, then this is available from the archive page by following the link below.
Archived tables on HMRC tax and National Insurance contributions receipts
Quality Report: Personal Wealth Statistics (PDF 24K)
You can find all tables for previous years on the National Archives website.
Distribution of Personal Wealth - tables for previous years (Opens new window)
