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DWP urged to bring in £25,000 personal allowance for all state pensioners - Liverpool Echo
A petition with over 2,400 signatures demands doubling the personal allowance to £25,140 to prevent more pensioners paying income tax on state pensions.
- Timothy Hugh Mason launched a petition urging the Department for Work and Pensions to double the personal allowance to £25,140 for state pensioners, gathering 2,478 signatures.
- The standard Personal Allowance stands at £12,570, and the personal allowance freeze by the former Conservative Government raises state pensioners' income tax risk.
- The full new state pension sits close to the personal allowance, and the petition says people with small private or workplace pensions face unfair taxation soon.
- If the petition hits 10,000 signatures the Government must respond and 100,000 could trigger a parliamentary debate, but the Department for Work and Pensions called the change `expensive` and said `The Government has no current plans to make the state pension tax exempt.`
- Campaigners are pressing the Department for Work and Pensions to act as the petition's rapid growth urges raising the personal allowance, which would increase tax-free limits while taxing wealthier pensioners.
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