Question follow-through · 34893
Emergency Services: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the application of inheritance tax to death in service payments will apply to (a) fire, (b) police service and (c) any other emergency service payments.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 6 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the application of inheritance tax to death in service payments will apply to (a) fire, (b) police service and (c) any other emergency service payments.
6 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2025
Answer published
Estates of emergency services personnel will benefit from the normal nil-rate bands, reliefs, and exemptions available. For example, the nil-rate bands mean an estate can pass on up to £1 million with no inheritance tax liability and the general rules mea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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