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.