The complete of money gathered by HM Revenue & Customs from inheritance tax achieved £700m in April, a rise of £85m from the identical month previous yr.
This follows figures unveiled final month exhibiting that HMRC had netted a historical past £7.5bn paid in inheritance tax receipts ultimate calendar yr.
Quilter tax and cash organizing certified Shaun Moore suggests the growing IHT bill is the ultimate results of “frozen thresholds and tax plan inertia”.
He states: “As we enter into election interval, it could be cheap for probably get collectively to reassess the UK’s IHT panorama and enhance what is not any for an extended time in fine condition for cause.
“When the bash manifestos are revealed later this 12 months, we are going to see how each equally features hope to evolve the inheritance tax system that has been in some extent out of paralysis for as nicely prolonged foremost to those types of figures.
“Some of the measures that might help to alleviate the tax stress may very well be to fall the IHT tax price to 30%.
“But this form of a tax slice is just not more likely to be additionally a lot of a vote winner supplied that solely a extremely smaller proportion of the British isles group principally fork out IHT.”
But, says Moore: “There are alternatives to make enhancements to the inheritance tax course of further usually which might iron out a few of the complexities and the inequalities.
“One location ripe for reform is the Residence Nil Rate Band (RNRB).
“While a perfectly-indicating coverage it’s fiendishly intricate and excludes a vital demographic, notably the growing number of aged of us with out having kids.
“With an getting old inhabitants and escalating childlessness the RNRB’s exclusionary mom nature outcomes in being at any time extra problematic.
“A fairer and significantly much less subtle process could be to raise the nil cost band to £500,000. This could be higher aligned with the remodeling demographics and social buildings of the state.”
