0 an amount of money that you can earn before you start to be taxed
1 the amount of income you can earn each year before paying tax:
After leaving them with the 1997-8 personal allowance of £14.10, this implies an average contribution to their care costs of about £132 a week.
The local authority funded residents had to give up all their income minus a few pounds a week which is retained as a personal allowance.
In addition to this, many more individuals will be kept out of tax by their personal allowance.
Support through the tax system is provided by the married couple's allowance and the additional personal allowance.
It is estimated that in 1997–98 around 10,000 husbands with children and a totally incapacitated wife receive the additional personal allowance.
He talked about the importance of extending the additional personal allowance and removing discrimination.
The estimated cost at 1998–99 levels of increasing both the non-aged personal allowance and the aged personal allowance to £10,000 is £29 billion.
A single person with no children has a tax threshold equal to the personal allowance.