The complete of income gathered by HM Revenue & Customs from inheritance tax arrived at £700m in April, an enhance of £85m from the same month closing 12 months.
This follows figures produced closing thirty day interval displaying that HMRC had netted a doc £7.5bn paid out in inheritance tax receipts closing calendar 12 months.
Quilter tax and cash planning certified Shaun Moore claims the rising IHT month-to-month invoice is the end result of “frozen thresholds and tax coverage inertia”.
He states: “As we enter into election 12 months, it might be good for presumably celebration to reassess the UK’s IHT panorama and modify what isn’t any for an extended time wholesome for perform.
“When the get collectively manifestos are launched later this calendar 12 months, we’ll see how the 2 events hope to evolve the inheritance tax program that has been in a situation of paralysis for too prolonged most important to those types of figures.
“Some of the steps that might help to alleviate the tax stress may very well be to fall the IHT tax stage to 30%.
“But this type of a tax slash shouldn’t be prone to be manner too a variety of a vote winner supplied that solely a extraordinarily compact proportion of the United kingdom common public truly pay out IHT.”
But, says Moore: “There are prospects to enhance the inheritance tax system much more normally which might iron out a few of the complexities and the inequalities.
“One location ripe for reform is the Home Nil Fee Band (RNRB).
“While a nicely-indicating plan it’s fiendishly difficult and excludes a essential demographic, particularly the creating number of aged individuals with out the necessity of little ones.
“With an rising outdated populace and elevating childlessness the RNRB’s exclusionary mom nature turns into ever additional problematic.
“A fairer and quite a bit much less subtle process can be to lift the nil quantity band to £500,000. This can be much better aligned with the remodeling demographics and social buildings of the nation.”
