Question follow-through · 39361
Pensions: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to Inheritance Tax at the Autumn Budget 2024 on costs to pension scheme administrators.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 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 she has made of the potential impact of changes to Inheritance Tax at the Autumn Budget 2024 on costs to pension scheme administrators.
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2025
Answer published
Most unused pension funds and death benefits will be included within the value of a person’s estate for inheritance tax purposes from 6 April 2027. A technical consultation was published at Autumn Budget 2024 on the proposal for pension scheme administrat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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