Raise the income tax personal allowance from £12,570 to £20,000
This would help with increasing rent, mortgages, Council tax, and Gas and Electric bills. Some families can’t afford to go back to work after children due to childcare costs wiping their whole income!
Signatures
94,048
signatures
Government response threshold (10,000) · 10,000/10,000 · reached
Debate threshold (100,000) · 94,048/100,000
- 28 FEB 2026Petition closedFinal total: 94,048 signatures
- 17 NOV 2025Government respondedHM TreasuryGovernment reply
The Government is committed to keeping taxes for working people as low as possible while ensuring fiscal responsibility, so we will not increase the Personal Allowance to £20,000.
Read full response - 31 OCT 202510,000 signatures reachedEligible for a government response
- 29 AUG 2025Petition opened for signatures
Background
We think that we are currently paying ridiculous amounts of tax, and that minimum wage isn't even enough to support an average family.
We believe that this would lead to a massive increase on people willing to look for work, instead of people not wanting to, due to it being too expensive to now live.