Visual Impairment: Tax Allowances
(asked on 7th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people claim the Blind Person’s Allowance as of 7 November 2022.
Latest published projections estimate that there were 36,900 claimants of Blind Person’s Allowance in 2021-22.
For more information, please refer to the annual ‘Estimated cost of non-structural tax reliefs’ publication, last published in December 2021. The most relevant information has been extracted into the table below.
These estimates are based on the 2018-19 Survey of Personal Incomes, projected using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s October 2021 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
Name | Tax Type | Description | 2021-22 cost | 2021-22 no. of claimants |
Blind Person’s Allowance | Income tax | For income tax purposes, people certified blind and on a local authority register of blind persons (where different rules apply for England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) can claim an additional personal allowance. | £20 million | 36,900 |