Petitions/Raise the standard tax-free Personal Allowance to £45,000
StatusClosed
Opened26 Nov 2024
Closes26 May 2025
Government responseResponded
Parliamentary debateNot eligible
Milestones 10,000

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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Government response

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.

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Matt Rodda
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Yuan Yang
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180
Apsana Begum
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Poplar and Limehouse
164
James Asser
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156
Emily Darlington
5Emily Darlington MP
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152
Ruth Cadbury
6Ruth Cadbury MP
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Alex Baker
7Alex Baker MP
Aldershot
150
Bob Blackman
8Bob Blackman MP
Harrow East
147
Heidi Alexander
9Heidi Alexander MP
Swindon South
147
Gareth Thomas
10Gareth Thomas MP
Harrow West
146