Written Question·Treasury·UIN 96643

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

Tabled: 3 December 2025

Answered: 8 December 2025

Named Day

Question

Mark Garnier

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Section 4.167 of the Autumn Budget 2025, when her Department plans to publish the solution ensuring that pensioners who only receive the state pension will not (a) have to fill out a tax return and

Answer

Torsten Bell

As the Chancellor has said, over this Parliament those whose only income is the basic or new State Pension without any increments will not have to pay income tax. As announced at the Budget, the government will ease the administrative burden for pensioner...

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