{"id":598271,"date":"2026-05-22T16:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598271\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:26:15","slug":"iht-receipts-remain-at-historic-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598271\/","title":{"rendered":"IHT receipts remain at historic highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-end=\"154\" data-start=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Magnifying glass highlighting tax-260x173.jpg\" style=\"width: 350px;\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib\" data-result=\"success\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"154\" data-start=\"0\">HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) collected \u00a30.7 billion in inheritance tax (IHT) receipts in April, \u00a365 million lower than the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"379\" data-start=\"156\">Despite the modest decline, following a record \u00a38.5 billion haul in the previous tax year, receipts remain historically elevated and the government still appears on track for another strong year of IHT r&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n            Continue reading this article&#8230;\n        <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-subscribe-subheading\">Start a free trial now for access to breaking news of the regulatory environment and legislative change happening in wealth management.<\/p>\n<p>Login\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-subscribe-btn-summary\">You are currently not logged in, <br \/>login to view the full article<br \/>start by clicking this button.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/continue-reading-and-subscribe.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Take out a free trial now\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-subscribe-btn-summary\">Need a subscription, <br \/>fill out the form here or <br \/>contact subs@eprivateclient.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) collected \u00a30.7 billion in inheritance tax (IHT) receipts in April, \u00a365 million lower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598271","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\/598271","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=598271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}