Armed Forces: Inheritance Tax
Commons · Question 27134 · Tabled 29 Jan 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Mark Pritchard
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to ensure Inheritance Tax is not charged on death in service payments paid to relatives of armed forces personnel.
Answer
Answered by James Murray, 7 Feb 2025
Members of the armed forces deserve our gratitude for their service and a pension that ensures dignity in retirement.The Government will bring most unused pension funds and death benefits payable from a pension into a person’s estate for inheritance tax p...