Treasury written question – answered at on 5 July 2012.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was raised through inheritance tax in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will estimate the amount of revenue lost through non-domicile residents in the UK.
A provisional estimate of the revenue raised from inheritance tax in 2011-12 is published in the HM Revenue and Customs receipts National Statistics table, published on the HMRC website at:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/tax_receipts/tax-receipts-and-taxpayers.pdf
An estimate of the amount of revenue lost through non-domicile residents in the UK is not available.
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Jan Parker-Padley
Posted on 6 Jul 2012 9:56 am (Report this annotation)
It would be nice if the figures were quoted as this would show that David Gauke had read them himself. Figures are produced but ministers seem oblivious to them and their meaning.