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Income Tax: Tax Allowances

Asked by Mr Peter BedfordConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 18 February 2025UIN 30903

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Personal Allowance threshold from £12,570.

Answered by James Murray

The previous Government made the decision to freeze the income tax Personal Allowance at its current level of £12,570 until April 2028. At our first Budget, we decided not to extend the freeze on personal tax thresholds meaning they will rise with inflation from April 2028

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