More than 100,000 dragged into higher rate tax as Sunak urged to publish returns

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Rishi Sunak heads to PMQs on Wednesday (Getty)

Thousands more taxpayers ended up paying higher rates between 2019/20 and 2020/21, according to new figures that came as Rishi Sunak faced renewed calls to publish his own returns.

The number of higher rate taxpayers increased by 100,000 between the two tax years, to four million, with an increase of £2.5bn-worth of tax to £64.9bn, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) figures.

The number of additional rate taxpayers also rose by 12,000 over the same period, to 433,000.