Question follow-through · 39280
Inheritance Tax: Tax Thresholds
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of threshold for the payment of Inheritance Tax on families with assets worth over £1 million.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of threshold for the payment of Inheritance Tax on families with assets worth over £1 million.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2025
Answer published
Inheritance tax is a wealth transfer tax charged on the estate (the property, money, and possessions) of someone who has died. In the latest available tax year (2021-22), 4.39% of all UK deaths were liable to inheritance tax. The tax liability is on the e...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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