2021 No. 1421
Income Tax

The Income Tax (Indexation of Blind Person’s Allowance and Married Couple’s Allowance) Order 2021

Made
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 57(6) of the Income Tax Act 20071, make the following Order.

Citation and Interpretation1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Income Tax (Indexation of Blind Person’s Allowance and Married Couple’s Allowance) Order 2021.

(2)

In this Order, references to sections are references to sections of the Income Tax Act 2007.

Indexation of allowances for the tax year 2022-232.

For the tax year 2022-23—

(a)

the amount specified in section 38(1)2 (blind person’s allowance) is replaced with “£2,600”;

(b)

the amount specified in section 433 (tax reductions for married couples and civil partners: persons born before 6 April 1935: meaning of “the minimum amount”) is replaced with “£3,640”;

(c)

the amount specified in section 45(3)(a)4 (married couple’s allowance: marriages before 5 December 2005) is replaced with “£9,415”;

(d)

the amount specified in section 46(3)(a)5 (married couple’s allowance: marriages and civil partnerships on or after 5 December 2005) is replaced with “£9,415”; and

(e)

the amounts specified in sections 45(4)6 and 46(4)7 (married couple’s allowance: adjusted net income limit) are replaced with “£31,400”.

Amanda Solloway
Craig Whittaker
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order fulfils the indexation requirements in section 57 (indexation of allowances) of the Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3) in respect of blind person’s allowance and married couple’s allowance, which is increased by reference to the Consumer Price Index. This increase has effect for the 2022-23 tax year. This Order does not provide for the indexation of the basic rate allowance or personal allowance, which have been specified by section 5 of the Finance Act 2021 (c. 26) for the 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 tax years.

A Tax Information and Impact Note has not been prepared for this instrument as it gives effect to previously announced policy and relates to a predetermined indexation formula.