Submitted by Denver Johnson on Saturday 2nd November 2024
Published on Tuesday 26th November 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 26th May 2025
Current Signatures: 37,674
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Raise the standard tax-free Personal Allowance to £45,000
The Personal Allowance is the amount of income a person can get before they pay tax. It stands at £12,570 in 2024. We would like the standard Personal Allowance raised to what we think is a more realistic figure of £45,000.
We think that the Personal Allowance, as termed by the government, has been kept unreasonably low for far too long, at the expense of the poorest, most needy people in our society.
We feel that the poorer majority should pay substantially less than the wealthy. We think that the tax system seems designed to make the divide between rich and poor increase exponentially.
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The Government responded to this petition on Tuesday 14th January 2025
The Government has not extended the last Government’s freeze on personal tax thresholds, meaning from April 2028 working people will keep more of their earnings as thresholds will rise by inflation.
The previous Government made the decision to freeze the income tax Personal Allowance (PA) at its current level of £12,570 until April 2028. The current Government is committed to keeping taxes for working people as low as possible while ensuring fiscal responsibility and so, at our first Budget, we decided not to extend the freeze on personal tax thresholds. As a result, they will rise with inflation from April 2028, meaning working people will keep more of their earnings.
Increasing the Personal Allowance to £45,000 would come at a significant fiscal cost of more than £270 billion per annum on average over the next three years (based on HMRC’s ready reckoners, published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/direct-effects-of-illustrative-tax-changes). This would reduce tax receipts substantially, decreasing funds available for the UK’s hospitals, schools, and other essential public services that we all rely on. It would also undermine the work the Chancellor has done to restore fiscal responsibility and economic stability, which are critical to getting our economy growing and keeping taxes, inflation, and mortgages as low as possible.
The Government keeps all taxes under review as part of the policy making process. The Chancellor will announce any changes to the tax system at fiscal events in the usual way.
HM Treasury
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