Question follow-through · 5244

Rent a Room Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Rent a Room Scheme tax-free earnings threshold.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 10 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 12 Sept 2024
Answer: 17 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Rent a Room Scheme tax-free earnings threshold.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2024
Answer published
Rent a room relief provides an incentive for people to make spare rooms available for rent. As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government will keep this under review.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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