Married People: Tax Allowances
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the Married Couple's Allowance.
Answered by James Murray
The Married Couple’s Allowance allows married couples and civil partners to reduce their tax bill by 10 per cent of the allowance amount, provided that at least one partner was born before 6 April 1935.
At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government uprated the Married Couple’s Allowance in line with inflation, as is default policy, so that it is valued to be between £4,280 and £11,080 in 2024-25.
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