<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>cspa on Birmingham Daily</title><link>https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/tags/cspa/</link><description>Recent content in cspa on Birmingham Daily</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:18:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/tags/cspa/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>HMRC’s Frozen Tax Allowance Could Push 9.3 Million Pensioners into Paying Income Tax</title><link>https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/hmrcs-frozen-tax-allowance-could-push-9.3-million-pensioners-into-paying-income-tax/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:18:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://birminghamdaily.co.uk/hmrcs-frozen-tax-allowance-could-push-9.3-million-pensioners-into-paying-income-tax/</guid><description>The Civil Service Pensioner Alliance (CSPA) has raised serious concerns about the impact of the frozen HMRC personal tax-free allowance on UK pensioners. While income tax rates have remained unchanged, the personal allowance has been held at £12,570 since 2021, a move that the CSPA calls &amp;ldquo;unfair&amp;rdquo; and detrimental to retirees across the country.
This freeze, combined with rising inflation, means that more pensioners are being pushed into the tax system through “fiscal drag.</description></item></channel></rss>