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The £12,500 personal allowance, £50,000 for the higher rate, was in the 2015 Conservative manifesto to be reached for the 2020/21 tax year. I'm not sure any (manifesto, not budget) commitment to intervening levels was made. The previously announced £11,200 for April 2017 in fact became £11,500, for example.
So £11,850, a rise of £350 from April'18, would lead me to expect something in the region of £12,150 to £12,200 in April '19. Similarly a rise in the higher t/h from £45K to £46,450 would lead me to expect something in the region of £48K in '19.
It is of course possible that the '19 thresholds might be slightly lower than a vaguely linear increase might be expected to produce, in order to maximise tax take for as long as possible before rising to manifesto promises.
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