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Increase the personal allowance to £18,000

Submitted on Monday 23rd March 2026

Rejected on Monday 6th April 2026

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Increase the personal allowance to £18,000

Petition Details

We want the government to increase the personal allowance to £17,000

Additional Information

Undo the effects of fiscal drag, allowing people to have more in their take home pay. To help fight the effects of inflation, put more earned income in the pockets of workers to help with the cost of living ease the burden on the state by enabling people to be self sufficient, save and invest. The government could even mandate a portion of it goes into pensions by increasing employee contribution %


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

you may wish to sign this petition on the same subject which is already open:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762815

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