To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the report from the Office of Tax Simplification entitled Inheritance Tax Review, second report: Simplifying the design of Inheritance Tax, published July 2019.
This question was answered on 6th February 2020
The Office of Tax Simplification have produced two reports on inheritance tax on both the administration of the tax and its policy design. The Government will consider the recommendations made, and as is customary for tax policy, any changes to inheritance tax will be delivered through a future fiscal event.