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Business: Inheritance Tax

Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 17 September 2024UIN 5067

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of business relief for Inheritance Tax in supporting family owned businesses.

Answered by James Murray

HMRC publishes data regularly about the number of claims and the cost of non-structural tax reliefs, such as agricultural property relief and business property relief. The information can be found at www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs.

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