Thousands call for Personal Allowance increase to £15,597 | Personal Finance | Finance

January 15, 2026 4,804

Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared in the Autumn Budget that the Personal Allowance will stay frozen at £12,570 until April 2030.

However, a new online petition demanding an increase in the Personal Allowance threshold to £15,597 and the higher rate from £50,271 to £62,379.02 has garnered over 6,800 signatures.

The petition’s initiator, Andy Hobson, contends that raising these two income tax bands would “give more people money in their pockets to pay their bills and rely less on government help”.

His calculations are based on inflating the thresholds – which were frozen in April 2021 – using the Bank of England inflation calculator.

Hobson further argued that increasing the Personal Allowance “could also mean more money being spent so more VAT in the government’s pocket too”.

He added: “We are currently suffering fiscal drag because of this and the previous government chose to freeze thresholds but we think this is a stealth tax.

“As we pay more for goods, our tax free allowance stays the same meaning we’re getting poorer.”

The ‘Set the income tax personal allowance to £15,597 and higher rate to £62,379.02’ petition can be found on the Petitions Parliament website, reports the Daily Record.

If it reaches 10,000 signatures, it will warrant a written response from the UK Government, and at 100,000 signatures, it could be considered by the Petitions Committee for debate in Parliament.