Good spot. I must have been either using the British definition of billion (million million) rather than the US definition (thousand million), or failed to spot that the 25,700 taxpayers in the referenced document actually represented 25,700,000. Anyway figure corrected. Thanks.
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Billion has meant 10^9 in both the US and the UK in most common usage since the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#cite_not...
There is no modern British definition that is different from the US definition.
One consequence of the historic distinction I quite like is that traders in the UK (and possibly elsewhere, I don't know) still call 10^9 a "yard" (short for "milliards").