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Capital Gains Tax statistics

Commentary, supporting documents, and tables relating to annual Capital Gains Tax statistics.

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From:
HM Revenue & Customs
Published:
31 October 2013
Last updated:
27 August 2026
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  1. Updated for the 2026 annual release. New table (Table 10) on cryptoasset gains.

  2. Updated tables and commentary for the 2025 annual release. New table (Table 9) on carried interest gains.

  3. Updated tables and commentary for the 2024 annual release

  4. Updated tables and commentary for the 2023 annual release

  5. Updated documents for the 2022 annual release

  6. Link to new Background Quality Report is added to this page. The report replaces the "Capital Gains Tax supporting documentation", which has now been removed from this page.

  7. Updated documents for 2021 annual release

  8. Commentary and supporting documentation have both been updated with 2018 to 2019 tax year data for the 2020 Capital Gains Tax National Statistics publication.

  9. Page updated with the latest version of the annual Capital Gains Tax statistics commentary and supporting documentation for 2019.

  10. New edition created to include 2016 to 2017 Self Assessment data.

  11. Updated tables.

  12. Updated attached document with latest available data (2014 to 2015 SA data and 2013 to 2014 CGT Survey data).

  13. Updated attached document with latest available data (2013 to 2014 SA data and 2012 to 2013 CGT Survey data).

  14. Tables updated for 2011 to 2012 and 2012 to 2013

  15. Updated the commentary in the attachment.

  16. First published.

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Capital Gains Tax commentary

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Table 1: Estimated number of taxpayers, amounts of gains and tax liabilities by year of disposal

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Table 2: Estimated number of taxpayers, amounts of gains and tax liabilities by size of gain

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Table 3: Estimated number of individual taxpayers by size of gain and taxable income

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Table 4: Estimated numbers of liable taxpayers, amounts of qualifying gains and tax charged at Business Asset Disposal Relief and Investors' Relief

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Table 5: Estimated number of taxpayers, amounts of gains and tax liabilities by UK country and region

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Table 6: Estimated number of individual taxpayers, amounts of gains and tax liabilities by age category

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Table 7: Estimated number of taxpayer disposals, disposal proceeds and gains by asset type and period of ownership in the 2023 to 2024 tax year

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Table 8: Estimated number of taxpayers and amount of gains and tax liabilities on residential property disposals

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Table 9: Estimated number of taxpayers reporting carried interest gains and amounts of carried interest gains and liabilities

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Table 10: Estimated number of taxpayers reporting cryptoasset gains and amounts of cryptoasset disposal proceeds and gains

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Table A1: Supporting tables

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Details

This publication provides a breakdown of the number of Capital Gains Tax liable taxpayers, gains and tax accruals by year of disposal.

This is an Accredited official statistics publication produced by HMRC. For more information on official statistics and governance of statistics produced by public bodies please see the UK Statistics Authority website.

Previous years’ releases can be found on The National Archives

Background Quality Report

Further details, including relevance, coverage, methodology, accuracy, timeliness, comparability, and accessibility are included in the Background Quality Report.

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