forward to date at which it would reach the £10,000 target. This resulted in the allowance being raised to £9,440 from April 2013, before being increased to £10,000 from April 2014, a year earlier than originally planned. All these increases in the personal allowance came from rises in the personal tax. In 2016, Osborne determined that the tax increases no longer applied for personal allowance and decided to cut taxes personal taxes £1,000 less than the 2011 level when he increased the personal allowance to £11,500. Married Man's allowance Married Man's allowance was the allowance for a legally married couple. The allowance was given at the man's highest rate of tax. During the early-1990s, then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont overhauled the allowance and introduced the 10% allowance, which meant that all men had the same amount of money in their pocket, irrespective of highest tax rate. The allowance was scrapped from April 2000, first being announced in then-Chancellor Gordon Brown's 1999 budget, with the exception of people married, or in civil partnerships (introduced in 2005) where one spouse was born before 6 April 1935. History of allowances See also Income tax in Scotland Welsh Rates of Income Tax References External links UK Government website: Income Tax rates and Personal Allowances Detailed list of rates paid between 1972 - 2005: Tax History- UK Historic Personal Tax Regime About the Personal Savings Allowance: Why you need to know about new Personal Savings Allowance Income taxes Personal taxes Taxation in the United Kingdom