inheritance tax (IHT) receipts<\/a> continue to climb come as no surprise to those of us working closely with families on long term wealth planning. The trend has slowed of late \u2013 perhaps due to slower house price growth in recent years \u2013 but still puts the Treasury firmly on track for another record financial year of total receipts in 2025\/26.\u201d<\/p>\nHe added: \u2018The expansion of IHT is not a result of sudden shifts in wealth, but rather years of fiscal drag. Nil rate bands have been frozen for many years while asset values, particularly property, have continued to inflate. Rising asset prices benefit the holders of investments and properties but the danger is that these households are sitting on an unexpectedly large, and rising, tax bill for their beneficiaries at death.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a planning perspective, more estates that would once have been considered comfortably below the IHT threshold are now creeping into taxable territory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Key Equity Release chief executive Will Hale said: Today\u2019s HMRC data reinforces the role inheritance tax plays as one of the government\u2019s most under the radar but dependable revenue raisers. An ever-tightening IHT backdrop is reshaping how advisers approach asset drawdown strategies, with the family home playing a growing role in retirement income and intergenerational wealth transfer planning.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWith pensions set to fall into IHT calculations next April, the old drawdown sequencing rules are being re-written and \u2018which pot do we spend?\u2019 has become one of the most consequential questions families will explore with advisers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inheritance Tax receipts for April 2025 to February 2026 were \u00a37.7bn, which is \u00a30.1bn higher than the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-486889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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