Income tax receipts (FOI)

Request

It would be appreciated if you could advise me of the total amounts of receipts by the Jersey States in 2017 in respect of:

A

Income tax payable by residents

B

Income tax payable by businesses, corporate entities and the like

C

Other receipts to include social security contributions, long term care contributions, GST, duties on incoming goods (certainly alcohol, tobacco, petrol / diesel and perfumery but also any other commodities).

Response

A to C

The revenues received during 2017 from taxation are provided in the States of Jersey Annual Report and Accounts 2017 (Page 185) on gov.je and are available through the following link:

States of Jersey Annual Report and Accounts 2017

In 2017 Social Security Contributions, net of States grants, amounted to £212.828 million and Long Term Care Contributions, net of States grants, amounted to £19.2 million. Further information is published on pages 19 and 21 respectively of the 2017 Social Security Departmental Minister’s Report which is available through the following link:

2017 Social Security Departmental Minister’s Report

In November 2018, Revenue Jersey published its Tax Statistical Digest which includes data regarding items (A) and (B) above for the 2016 year of assessment; and GST data for the 2017 calendar year. This can be accessed through the following link:

Tax Statistical Digest