Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 70269
State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax
Tabled: 22 July 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025
Question
Mr Angus MacDonald
Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of people who will pay income tax on the state pension from April 2026.
Answer
Torsten BellThe headline rates of the basic and new State Pensions are currently below the level of the Income Tax Personal Allowance, so pensioners for whom that is their sole income pay no income tax. It is pensioners with larger than average State Pension entitlem...
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