{"id":59765,"date":"2025-08-11T18:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59765\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:24:04","slug":"govt-confirms-iht-will-apply-to-pensions-pre-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59765\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt confirms IHT will apply to pensions pre-55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move described as \u2018extremely unfair\u2019, the government has confirmed that inheritance tax (IHT) will apply to pension pots of those who die before they were able to access them.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/citywire.com\/new-model-adviser\/news\/govt-pushing-ahead-with-pensions-iht-in-bid-to-raise-1-5bn-a-year\/a2470608?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=citywire_nma&amp;utm_campaign=article-in-body\" data-link-type=\"article\" data-content-id=\"2470608\" data-delivery-target-code=\"web3__sections__new_model_adviser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Treasury consultations<\/a>, the government has not mentioned what bringing pensions into the scope of IHT in 2027 will mean if a member dies before they can access their pension pot, ie before they reach 55.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) told Citywire New Model Adviser that \u2018IHT would still apply in this instance\u2019, adding \u2018there is no link to age for this measure\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a move described as \u2018extremely unfair\u2019, the government has confirmed that inheritance tax (IHT) will apply to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-59765","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\/59765","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=59765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}