Keir Starmer paid £54,718 in tax last year

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer paid £ 54,718 in the Income Tax in 2023/24, in accordance with a document published by the Government.

A summary shows that he paid the tax for £ 152,225 of income in the financial year that ended on April 5, 2024, a period in which the labor was in opposition.

Sir Keir received most of his income from his role as MP and narrower amounts from book royalties and £ 5,174 interest on money in a savings account.

Foreign Minister Rachel Reeves and Vice Prime Minister Angela Rayner have also published summaries of their fiscal affairs for the same year.

Reeves obtained a total of 91,758 and paid £ 24.215 in Income Tax.

The Foreign Minister received £ 12,372 of self -employment income, which was related to royalty of books and audiolibros rates.

Rayner obtained a total of £ 85.205 and paid £ 21,514 in Income Tax.

All Rayner’s income and taxable benefits come from their role as parliamentarian.

Sir Keir’s tax bill for 2023/24 was less than the previous financial year, when he paid £ 52,688 in the capital gain tax after the sale of December 2022 from a partially owned field of his father’s assets.

His tax bill in 2022/23 was five times lower than that of former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during the same year.

Sir Keir’s last summary The taxable income of the United Kingdom, capital gains and taxes paid during the last fiscal year, as reported by HM Inform & Customs, was prepared by its authorized accountants.

David Cameron became the first prime minister of the United Kingdom to publish a summary of his tax statements in 2016, after the revelations about the Offshore fund of his late father.

Theresa May published her tax statement that she became her campaign to be Tory leader in 2016, but did not do so when she was prime minister.

The two prime ministers who preceded Sunak, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, who held the position for less than two months, did not publish their tax statements.

Sunak and Jeremy Hunt published tax figures while working as Prime Minister and Chancellor respectively.

Initially, Reeves had said that he had no plans to publish details or Re -Tax when asked if he would do so earlier this year.

Bur Reeves then said: “I am very happy to release my tax declaration according to what happened in the adjustments recently, and I will do it in the prime minister in due time.”

The conservatives have said previously that the leader KEMI Badenoch had no plans to publish details of his tax declaration 2023/24.

The BBC has approached the conservative party to comment.