This petition was submitted during the 2019 to 2024 Parliament
Rejected petition Raise the personal income tax allowance instead of cutting taxes
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Help the people on the lower incomes take home more if their hard earned money
The tax cuts only help the people higher up the scale, the government should be starting from the lower paid it's them who are struggling with the cost of living not the people on salaries above £50,000 per year.
By increasing the personal allowance this will start helping people on the lower incomes by freeing up more money to help with the cost of living.
This would also boost the economy as more people will want to work to earn more and will spend more.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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There are several petitions already open which are calling for different changes to income tax. You might like to sign one or more of them:
Raise the standard Personal TAX Allowance from £12,570 to £20,000
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/618661Raise the income tax personal allowance to £15000 immediately
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/617227Lower the standard rate of income tax due to cost of living increases
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/613191Lower the basic rate income tax from 20% to 7.5%
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/616532Change income tax thresholds to help for cost of living for everyone
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/621777Remove income tax and National Insurance for those earning under £24k a year
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/622082Reduce income tax from 20% to 10%
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/62332950% reduction in all taxes
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/616403We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.