Even if we assume generously that the average bottom
decile household has 2.5 adults in it, that's # 2190 a year per adult on those essentials, meaning that of their # 7791 disposable income they can be spending at most # 5601 on VATable items.
The Family Expenditure Survey thinks the poorest
decile household are spending just under # 10 a day on rent or mortgage alone, and # 5 a day on food.
Not exact matches
The blue bars show the average annual amount of the tax in cash terms for each
decile of
household wealth in WAS (to construct the
deciles,
households in WAS were divided into ten equally sized groups according to net
household wealth).
The red bars show the distributional impact according to income
decile (with
households in WAS divided in to ten equally sized groups according to disposable income, adjusted for
household size).
The average change for those
households in lower
deciles is higher than those in higher
deciles.