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Inheritance Tax

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainTreasuryTabled Answered 7 November 2025UIN 86907

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the administrative cost of collecting Inheritance Tax as a proportion of total revenue.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

The figure for the cost of collecting Inheritance Tax (pence per pound collected) for 2024/25 is 0.78. This means as a proportion of total Inheritance Tax revenue, the administrative cost of collecting Inheritance Tax was 0.78% in that year.

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