State Retirement Pensions: Taxation
(asked on 17th September 2026) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to tax state pensions.
This question was answered on 5th October 2026
It has always been the case that pension income, from private pensions and the State Pension, is taxable. Under the previous Government, 8.3 million pensioners, the vast majority, paid income tax.