Introduction Background Note
8.Currently, where the RPI for the month of September is higher than the figure for the previous September, the level of the AEA for the following tax year increases in line with the percentage increase in the RPI, unless Parliament sets a different level.
9.At the Autumn Statement 2011, the Chancellor announced that the AEA for the tax year 2012-13 will be frozen at its current level of £10,600 and the planned switch from RPI to CPI, announced at Budget 2011, will take place from 2013/14.