Question follow-through · 55889
Pensions: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a flat-rate 20% inheritance levy on unused pension funds.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a flat-rate 20% inheritance levy on unused pension funds.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 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. This removes distortions resulting from changes that have been made to pensions tax policy over the last de...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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