ROS ALTMANN: The 政府's stealth 税金 （警察の）手入れ，急襲 on pensioners shows they're just giving with one 手渡す and taking away with the other
In the coming months many British pensioners will 直面する a horribly unwelcome surprise when they 選ぶ up their 地位，任命する from the doormat.
There could be a letter in one of those brown envelopes 知らせるing them they will have to fill in a 税金 self-査定／評価 form ? even worse, that they did not 支払う／賃金 their 税金 and 直面する a 刑罰，罰則.
式のs, the 脅し of the taxman making his presence felt の中で our 年輩の is very real. 見積（る）s 現れるd yesterday that 1.6 million more pensioners could become liable for 所得税 in the next few years, 儀礼 of the 政府's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 凍結する the personal 税金 threshold rather than 許すing it to rise with インフレーション.
For Britain's pensioners this is an アイロンをかける 握りこぶし 覆う？ in a velvet glove. The trumpeted 明言する／公表する 年金 rise ? the いわゆる ３倍になる lock 保証（人）ing a reasonable 増加する ? is welcome. But it has dragged many more unsuspecting pensioners into the 税金 逮捕する.
The 脅し of the taxman making his presence felt の中で our 年輩の is very real says Ros Altmann (pictured)
Indeed, it could mean more than 9 million having to 支払う／賃金 税金 ? a 二塁打ing of the 4.5 million liable in 2010, when the 連立政権 （機の）カム to 力／強力にする.
Don't get me wrong ? I'm delighted that after years of 腐食, the ３倍になる-lock has 上げるd 明言する／公表する 年金s. Under the system, the 8.5 per cent インフレーション 増加する this year has raised the 明言する／公表する 年金 by £17.35 a week, to £221.20.
But this good news comes with a 汚い sting in the tail, as the 明言する／公表する 年金 now accounts for 90 per cent of the 税金-解放する／自由な allowance before you have to start 支払う／賃金ing 所得税. Even a bit of extra 私的な income will take pensioners into 税金 義務／負債, and the …を伴ってing nightmare of paperwork.
Many pensioners, 存在するing on modest sums, will never have had to 支払う／賃金 税金 on their 年金s before nor, in their working lives, done a self-査定／評価.
Given there are no 計画（する）s for any form of marketing or advertising （選挙などの）運動をする 警報ing them to this, many are going to find themselves 支配する to 税金 without realising it ? thus incurring 刑罰，罰則s for not doing something they didn't know needed to be done in the first place.
見積（る）s 現れるd yesterday that 1.6 million more pensioners could become liable for 所得税 in the next few years
Nor can they rely on HMRC for help, if its helpline becomes 圧倒するd. Where are they 推定する／予想するd to turn for help, 特に those who are not 確信して online?
At the very least, the Department for Work and 年金s must 令状 to 警報 pensioners to check whether they may be liable for 税金 ? and we should have better 連絡事務s between DWP and HMRC, with a 献身的な helpline for pensioners who want to speak to someone.
Either way, this 状況／情勢 leaves me exasperated ? a feeling with which as a 長年の 年金s 専門家, I have become ますます familiar.
Whether it be the constant moves to 増加する the 年金 age ? to 68 by the 中央の 2030s, meaning much higher poverty 率s for 65-67 year-olds ? the 失敗 to 改革（する） social care or cutbacks to 年金 credit, it's hard not to feel that our 年輩の, 特に the poorer の中で them, are getting a rum 取引，協定.
Even the laudable rise in 年金 income is partly 相殺する by the spiralling cost of living: 分析 by the think 戦車／タンク 決意／決議 創立／基礎 設立する that the 普通の／平均（する） 受取人 would be left only £190 a year better off in practice.
Factor in the （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長's 現在進行中の 凍結する on 所得税 thresholds, and that is likely to be wiped out altogether.
Pensioners with little more than just a 明言する／公表する 年金 deserve better than a 政府 giving with one 手渡す ? and cynically taking with the other.
Stealth 税金 （警察の）手入れ，急襲 will 軍隊 1.6 million pensioners to 支払う／賃金 所得税 over the next four years, anal ysis 明らかにする／漏らすs
By Jessica 耐えるd?
More than 1.6 million pensioners will be 軍隊d into 支払う／賃金ing 所得税 over the next four years, as a result of a 政府 stealth 税金 （警察の）手入れ，急襲.
An 公式の／役人 分析 of the 総理大臣 and （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 Jeremy 追跡（する）'s 税金 計画（する）s has 明らかにする／漏らすd that up to 600,000 people will be dragged over their personal allowance threshold ? the point at which you must start 支払う／賃金ing 税金 ? when the 明言する／公表する 年金 rises next Monday.
Around 1.2 million extra pensioners will have to 支払う／賃金 income in the new 税金 year as a result of the 政府's 凍結する on 税金 allowances, によれば 研究 from the House of ありふれたs Library, （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d by the 自由主義の 民主党員s. As many as 9.3 million people over age 66 will be 支払う／賃金ing the 税金 by 2028, it 設立する.
The personal allowance typically rises by インフレーション but has been frozen since 2021 at £12,570 and will remain at that level until 2028.
The new 明言する／公表する 年金 will rise by £902.20 a year from April 8, under the 政府's '３倍になる lock' 誓約（する）. This 保証（人）s the 明言する／公表する 年金 will rise by the high est of インフレーション, 行う growth or 2.5 per cent.
British 大蔵大臣 Jeremy 追跡（する） (pictured) leaves 負かす／撃墜するing Street on March 19
The 十分な new 明言する／公表する 年金 ? paid to those who reached 年金 age after 2016 ? will be £11,502.40 a year. But this 押し進めるs hundreds of thousands of pensioners closer to the upper 限界 of their personal allowance.
This 'stealth' 税金 罠（にかける） means they can receive 付加 income of only £1,067.60 a year before having to 支払う／賃金 所得税.
The personal allowance would have 増加するd to £15,220 from next week if it had not been capped and had instead risen in line with インフレーション, and to £15,990 by 2028, によれば the Office for 予算 責任／義務.?
The number of pensioners 支払う／賃金ing 所得税 has nearly 二塁打d since the Tories （機の）カム to 力／強力にする, rising from 4.9million in 2010 to 8.5million today, によれば 研究 from think 戦車／タンク the 学校／設ける for 会計の 熟考する／考慮するs.?
Around 1.2 million extra pensioners will have to 支払う／賃金 income in the new 税金 year as a result of the 政府's 凍結する on 税金 allowances, によれば 研究 from the House of ありふれたs Library
The stealth 凍結する on 所得税 thresholds will leave the 普通の／平均（する） taxpaying pensioner £1,000 worse off by 2027/28, costing a 集団の／共同の £8 billion, 分析 from think 戦車／タンク 決意／決議 創立／基礎 has 設立する.?
More pensioners are at 危険 of 直面するing 罰金s for not 支払う／賃金ing 税金 they knew was 予定, 専門家s have 警告するd.
Sarah Olney, MP and 自由主義の 民主党員 財務省 spokeswoman, said: 'Older people who have worked hard and 与える／捧げるd all their lives are now 存在 clobbered with years of 不公平な 税金 引き上げ（る）s.'
