Income Tax: Tax Allowances

(asked on 11th February 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

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 Portrait
James Murray
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 18th February 2025

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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