Written Question·Treasury·UIN 23105

Pensioners: Tax Allowances

Tabled: 9 January 2025
Answered: 17 January 2025

Question

Ben Maguire

Liberal DemocratNorth Cornwall

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the tax allowance for pensioners to £15,000.

Answer

James Murray
The Government is committed to keeping taxes as low as possible for pensioners while ensuring fiscal responsibility, which is why it is not extending the freeze on personal tax thresholds that was implemented by the previous government, and is instead all...

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