Written questions

Inheritance Tax

Commons · Question 86907 · Tabled 30 Oct 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 7 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

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.

Answer

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 7 Nov 2025

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.