Petitions/Raise the standard tax-free Personal Allowance to £45,000
StatusOngoing
Opened23 Jan 2026
Closes
Government response
Parliamentary debateNot eligible
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The Personal Allowance is the amount of income a person can get before they pay income tax. It stands at £12,570 in 2025. We would like the standard Personal Allowance raised to what we think is a more realistic figure of £45,00.

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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Constituency engagement ranking

Shivani Raja
1Shivani Raja MP
Leicester East
8
Dame Karen Bradley
2Dame Karen Bradley MP
Staffordshire Moorlands
4
Shockat Adam
3Shockat Adam MP
Leicester South
3
Jodie Gosling
4Jodie Gosling MP
Nuneaton
3
Kirsteen Sullivan
5Kirsteen Sullivan MP
Bathgate and Linlithgow
3
Dr Jeevun Sandher
6Dr Jeevun Sandher MP
Loughborough
2
Mr Peter Bedford
7Mr Peter Bedford MP
Mid Leicestershire
2
Alan Strickland
8Alan Strickland MP
Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
2
Clive Jones
9Clive Jones MP
Wokingham
2
Calum Miller
10Calum Miller MP
Bicester and Woodstock
1