Personal allowance - wikipedia Personal allowance In the UK tax system, personal allowance is the threshold above which income tax is levied on an individual 's income. A person who receives less than his / her personal allowance in taxable income ( such as earnings and some benefits ) in a given tax year does not pay income tax ; otherwise, tax must be paid according to how much is earned above this level. Certain residents are entitled to a larger personal allowance than others. Such groups include the over 65s ( followed by an increased allowance for over 75s ), blind people, and married couples where at least one person in the marriage ( or civil partnership ) was born before 6 April 1935. People earn over £ 100,000 have a smaller personal allowance. For every £ 2 earned above £ 100,000, £ 1 of the personal allowance is lost. With incomes over £ 123,000 having no personal allowance. Contents 1 History 2 Married Man 's allowance 3 History of allowances 4 References 5 Notes History This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( December 2014 ) On 22 June 2010, the new Chancellor George Osborne, as part of the coalition deal which seeks to increase the Personal Allowance to £ 10,000 from April 2015, made the first increase of £ 1,000, making it £ 7475 for the 2011 - 12 tax year. During the 2011 Budget, the allowance was raised by £ 630 to £ 8,105 from April 2012. In 2013, George Osborne revised the plans to increase the Personal Allowance and bring forward to date at which it would reach the £ 10,000 target. This resulted in the allowance being raised to £ 9,440 from April 2013, before being increased to £ 10,000 from April 2014, a year earlier than originally planned. Married man 's allowance Married Man 's allowance was the allowance for a legally married couple. The allowance was given at the man 's highest rate of tax. During the early 1990s the then Chancellor Norman Lamont overhauled the allowance and introduced the 10 % allowance, which meant that all men had the same amount of money in their pocket, irrespective of highest tax rate. The allowance was scrapped from April 2000, first being announced in Gordon Brown 's 1999 budget, with the exception of people married or in civil partnerships where one spouse was born before 6 April 1935. History of allowances Year Allowance ( £ ) Age under 65 Age 65 - 74 Age over 75 1988 - 89 2,605 - - 1996 -- 97 3,765 - - 1997 -- 98 4,045 - - 1998 -- 99 - - - 1999 -- 00 4,335 - - 2000 -- 01 4,385 - - 2001 -- 02 4,535 - - 2002 -- 03 4,615 - - 2003 -- 04 4,615 - - 2004 -- 05 4,745 - - 2005 -- 06 4,895 - - 2006 -- 07 5,035 - - 2007 -- 08 5,225 - - 2008 -- 09 6,035 - - 2009 -- 10 6,475 - - 2010 -- 11 6,475 - - 2011 -- 12 7,475 - - 2012 -- 13 8,105 - - 2013 -- 14 9,440 10,500 10,660 2014 -- 15 10,000 10,500 10,660 2015 -- 16 10,600 - - 2016 -- 17 11,000 - - 2017 -- 18 11,500 - - 2018 -- 19 11,850 - - References Jump up ^ `` Income Tax rates and Personal Allowances ''. UK Government. 2017 - 12 - 30. Jump up ^ Wall, Emma ( 2010 - 05 - 21 ). `` How does the Budget affect me ? Income Tax ''. The Daily Telegraph. London. Jump up ^ `` Emergency Budget 22 June 2010 ''. HM Revenue & Customs. Retrieved 2010 - 06 - 25. Jump up ^ Cooper, Rob ( 2011 - 03 - 23 ). `` Osborne : ' I 'm the man with a plan '... Chancellor 's Budget cuts fuel duty, reduces income tax and slashes red tape and business costs ''. Daily Mail. London. Jump up ^ http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/385688/Budget-2013-Personal-tax-allowance-rise-to-10-000-brought-forward-12-months Jump up ^ Hall, James ( 2012 - 03 - 22 ). `` Budget 2012 : Hidden blow in raised personal tax allowance ''. The Daily Telegraph. London. Jump up ^ Mason, Rowena ( 2013 - 03 - 20 ). `` Budget 2013 : Millions of workers get £ 100 tax cut ''. The Daily Telegraph. London. Jump up ^ `` Gordon Brown : A decade of Budgets ''. BBC News. 2007 - 03 - 18. Jump up ^ Whitehead, Tom ; Hope, Christopher ( 2009 - 01 - 01 ). `` Married couples ' punished by tax system ' ''. The Daily Telegraph. London. Jump up ^ `` Hague 's marriage tax breaks slammed ''. Daily Mail. London. 2014 - 04 - 19. Jump up ^ http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/111449 Jump up ^ `` Rates and Allowances - Income Tax ''. HM Revenue & Customs. Retrieved 2009 - 05 - 30. ^ Jump up to : Collinson, Patrick ( 2013 - 03 - 20 ). `` 2013 & 2014 Personal Allowances ''. London : the guardian. Retrieved 2013 - 03 - 21. Jump up ^ https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rates-and-allowances-income-tax/income-tax-rates-and-allowances-current-and-past Jump up ^ https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rates-and-allowances-income-tax/income-tax-rates-and-allowances-current-and-past Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-31874987 Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42056452 Notes UK Government website : https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates Detailed list of rates paid between 1972 - 2005 : http://www.taxhistory.co.uk/Income%20Tax%20Allowances.htm About the Personal Savings Allowance : https://www.crowdstacker.com/knowledge/why-you-need-know-about-new-personal-savings-allowance Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Personal_allowance&oldid=817695341 '' Categories : Income taxes Personal taxes Taxation in the United Kingdom Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from January 2015 Use British English from January 2015 Articles to be expanded from December 2014 All articles to be expanded Articles using small message boxes Wikipedia articles needing clarification from December 2014 Wikipedia articles needing clarification from January 2016 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Cymraeg Edit links This page was last edited on 30 December 2017, at 00 : 54. 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Question: when did the married man's tax allowance end
Answer: April 2000