SCOTTISH families are “paying the price” for Westminster’s freeze on tax-free personal allowance, the SNP warns.Research from the House of Commons Library found millions of workers across Britain are paying an extra £700 a year in income tax as the government plans to continue freezing the standard personal allowance at the 2021/22 rate of £12,570 a year.Standard personal allowance is by default indexed to rise annually with inflation, but the previous Tory government froze it in March 2021, and continued freezing it the following years.

SCOTTISH families are “paying the price” for Westminster’s freeze on tax-free personal allowance, the SNP warns.

Research from the House of Commons Library found millions of workers across Britain are paying an extra £700 a year in income tax as the government plans to continue freezing the standard personal allowance at the 2021/22 rate of £12,570 a year.

Standard personal allowance is by default indexed to rise annually with inflation, but the previous Tory government froze it in March 2021, and continued freezing it the following years.

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