Pensioners: Tax Allowances
Commons · Question 23105 · Tabled 9 Jan 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Maguire
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
Answered by James Murray, 17 Jan 2025
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...