Guardian’s Allowance: Tax Allowances

(asked on 26th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received income tax relief on Guardian’s allowance in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 6th March 2018

The table below shows estimates for the number of people receiving income tax or National Insurance Contributions relief for each of the requested allowances. The estimates show people that would face a higher tax or NICs liability if the individual allowances and/or thresholds were removed, (and includes people who are currently non-taxpayers as their income is covered by these thresholds and/or allowances).

Estimates of the number of people who received tax/NIC relief (Millions) (1)

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

Married Couple Allowance

0.5

0.4

0.3

Contributions not attributable to reduced pensions eligibility

2.2

2.2

2.2

  1. The figures are rounded to the nearest hundred thousand and presented in millions.

The estimates provided are based on the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI), projected to 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.

Estimates of the number of people who received Guardian’s allowance cannot be provided as there are less than 0.1m individuals estimated to benefit from Guardian’s allowance in each year.

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