Question follow-through · 11042
Pensioners: Tax Rates and Bands
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a higher tax threshold for pensioners.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 1 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a higher tax threshold for pensioners.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to making sure older people can live with the dignity and respect they deserve in retirement. The income tax Personal Allowance will continue to exceed the basic and full new State Pension in 2024-25. This means that pensioners...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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