Rejected petition: Remove the State Pension amount from HMRC Personal Tax Allowance.
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If the State Pension amount was removed from the Personal Tax Allowance it would relieve financial issues from the majority of Pensioners thus reducing need for any Pension credits.
To reduce financial pressure on UK pensioners.
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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign one of these petitions, which call for similar action:
"Raise the personal tax allowance to the state pension rate"
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/746077"Introduce new tax code for state pensioners with double the personal allowance"
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/740671We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.