by johnireland | Articles
A Record Year for Inheritance Tax — and for Enforcement Inheritance tax receipts reached a record of nearly £8.5 billion in the last tax year. What has received far less attention is how much of that money HMRC had to go and find. New figures show that investigations...
by johnireland | Tax Talk
HMRC has recovered an extra £1.36 billion from inheritance tax investigations over the past five years, while IHT receipts hit a record £8.5 billion. The proportion of UK deaths triggering an IHT bill is now the highest in almost twenty years. The new battleground is...