Families across Scotland ‘paying the price’ for the UK government’s tax-free personal allowance freeze, SNP says

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,…