Inheritance Tax: Tax Allowances

(asked on 1st March 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received relief from Inheritance Tax for deaths on active service in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 8th March 2018

The number of estates that claimed the inheritance tax exemption for death on active service cannot be provided. Due to the low incidence of claims for this relief, releasing the information could lead to the identification of individual taxpayers.

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