That's why he wants to lift the income tax threshold.

But most of the people benefiting from the increase in the income tax threshold are women.

He seems to think that repeating the income tax threshold rise is the key to winning back his voters.

Income tax thresholds and allowances go up by six point eight per cent.

For example, war resisters may choose to avoid taxes by living simply below the income tax threshold.

One way is to increase the income tax threshold - the amount of money someone can make before having to pay state income tax.

The income tax threshold is the income level at which a person begins paying income taxes.

On the bright side she'll keep more of her income thanks to the LibDems raising the income tax threshold.

In protest at the policies of United States government, she became a tax resister by simply living below the income tax threshold.

The personal allowance or income tax threshold was £4,745 (people with incomes below this level did not pay income tax).

Ammon Hennacy, who, like Ballou also believed in nonresistance, eased his conscience by simply living below the income tax threshold.

And someone who earns between that level and the income tax threshold of £7,475 will be able to opt in to Nest, and attract employer contributions too.

If, however, your basic pension is your only source of income, you will not have to worry as the amount you receive is below the income tax threshold.

In addition, many systems only levy taxes on earnings above an income tax threshold, allow deductions for personal allowances or a minimum deemed amount of personal deductions.

Blanket minimum wage levels for all industries could also be set as a fixed percentage of the GDP per capita or the income tax threshold of the nation.

The second was the fact that the only real, tangible benefit brought by the LibDems that Clegg could point to was the raising of the income tax threshold.

Yesterday the Liberal Democrats set out their own plans to raise the income tax threshold to £10,000 and push up taxes on the rich, including a new charge on their houses.

The reason Osborne et al decided on a simple way of implementing this - using the higher rate of income tax threshold - was because that would make it simpler and cheaper to implement.

The auto-enrolment legislation, like other pension reforms, will have far-reaching consequences, requiring all those over 22 earning above the income tax threshold (£7,475 in 2011/12) who are not members of any work-related pension scheme to join one.

The child benefit threshold was aligned with the higher-rate 40% income tax threshold to avoid complex means testing but there has been criticism that the move will penalise some families where one parent stays at home to look after the children.

In our competition, sponsored by independent accountants Scott-Moncrieff Thomson & Shiells, readers had to make their own judgment on 12 elements of the Budget, ranging from income tax thresholds to VAT, excise duties and public borrowing.

It did so by reducing pensions by 10% and the pensions of working pensioners by 70%, reducing family benefits and maternity benefits for working parents by 10%, as well as reducing non-taxable personal income tax thresholds.

Also, they are having a relatively good effect on coalition policies; implemented are the income tax threshold raising and the Pupil Premium among others adding up to about 50% of their own manifesto being in the Coalition Agreement (according to a university study.

A proposal for a system of low-income tax credits that would have lifted the city's income tax threshold was made jointly last year by the Mayor and Peter F. Vallone, the City Council Speaker, but it was rejected by legislators in Albany.

Since quite a large percentage of benefits claimants are the working poor I don't think raising the income tax threshold to £10,000 would either cost the government much (because the number of workers able to claim benefits would drop), nor would it help poorer workers much for the same reason.