Question follow-through · 52127
Capital Gains Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the potential revenue that could be raised through (a) equalising capital gains tax with income tax rates and (b) applying a 2 per cent tax for people with assets over £10 million, to
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the potential revenue that could be raised through (a) equalising capital gains tax with income tax rates and (b) applying a 2 per cent tax for people with assets over £10 million, to
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
The Government continually keeps the tax system under review. Published estimates for illustrative tax changes can be found in HMRC’s Direct effects of illustrative tax changes bulletin including changes to Capital Gains Tax [1] [1] https://www.gov.uk/gov...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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