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.
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- 26 MAY 2025Petition closedFinal total: 47,717 signatures
- 14 JAN 2025Government respondedHM TreasuryGovernment reply
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.
Read full response - 03 JAN 202510,000 signatures reachedEligible for a government response
- 26 NOV 2024Petition opened for signatures
Background
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.