Winter Fuel Payments: Taxation

(asked on 21st November 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making winter fuel allowance taxable at the marginal rate paid by the recipient of that allowance.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 29th November 2017

There will be no change to the universal nature of the Winter Fuel Payment for the length of this Parliament and there are no plans to tax Winter Fuel Payments.

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