Britons paid a record £16.7bn in capital gains tax in the 2021-22 financial year on the back of rising asset values and house sales.
According to official data published on Thursday by HM Revenue & Customs, there was a 15% year-on-year increase in the amount of CGT liabilities due to the Treasury.
The number of people who owed the tax also hit an all-time high of 394,000 in the year to April 2022, a jump of 20% compared with the previous year.
