Inheritance Tax

Survey of users' views

HMRC are committed to providing impartial quality statistics that meet user needs. HMRC encourages users to engage with them so they can improve the official statistics and identify gaps in the statistics that are produced. We are currently seeking your views on the IHT tables in general and we're also proposing some changes to certain tables. If you would like to provide feedback on these statistics, comment on the proposed changes or suggest others, please participate in the User Survey:

• User survey (Opens new window)

This survey will be open from 3 January 2012 until Thursday 5 April 2012

You can also complete the HMRC Official Statistics feedback form or contact the relevant statistician whose details are provided in the publication if you wish to contribute to our ongoing commitment to user engagement.

Latest release

• Commentary on Inheritance Tax Statistics 2008-09 (PDF 201K)
• Tax parameters (Table A.8) (PDF 13K) also (XLS 32K)
• Tax receipts and taxpayers
• Tax expenditures and ready reckoners

Statistical tables

Analysis of receipts (Table 12.1)

• Table 12.1 years 2004-05 to 2010-11 (PDF 23K) also Table 12.1 (XLS 48K)

Exemptions and reliefs: estates above IHT threshold (Table 12.2)

• Table 12.2 years 2004-05 to 2008-09 (PDF 31K) also Table 12.2 (XLS 51K)

Estates notified for probate: numbers and tax by range of estate for years of death (Table 12.3)

• Table 12.3 years 2004-05 to 2008-09 (PDF 23K) also Table 12.3 (XLS 50K)

Estates notified for probate: assets in estates by range of net estate (Table 12.4)

• Table 12.4 years 2008-09 (PDF 30K) also Table 12.4 (XLS 48K)

Estates notified for probate: assets by sex, age and marital status of deceased (Table 12.5)

• Table 12.5 years 2008-09 (PDF 255K) also Table 12.5 (XLS 110K)

Taxpaying estates : assets by sex, age and marital status (Table 12.6)

• Table 12.6 years 2008-09 (PDF 236K) also Table 12.6 (XLS 110K)

Assets held in taxpaying discretionary trusts at ten year anniversary by range of value (Table 12.7)

• Table 12.7 years 2000-01 to 2009-10 (PDF 22K) also Table 12.7 (XLS 47K)

Assets held in taxpaying discretionary trusts at ten year anniversary by asset type and by year of ten year anniversary (Table 12.8)

• Table 12.8 years 2000-01 to 2009-10 (PDF 28K) also Table 12.8 (XLS 49K)

Destination of assets on death (Table 12.9) (Not National Statistics)

• Table 12.9 years 2000-01: (PDF 6K) also Table 12.9 (XLS 20K)

Taxpaying estates: numbers by Government Office Regions and Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (NUTS) Level 3 (Table 12.10) (Not National Statistics)

• Table 12.10 Years 2008-09 (PDF 25K) also Table 12.10 (XLS 64K)

Taxpaying estates: numbers by Government Office Regions and Local Administrative Units (LAU) Level 1 (Table 12.11) (Not National Statistics)

• Table 12.11 Years 2008-09 (PDF 29K) also Table 12.11 (XLS 75K)

Taxpaying estates: numbers by Government Office Regions and UK (Westminster) Parliamentary Constituencies (Table 12.12) (Not National Statistics)

• Table 12.12 Years 2008-09 (PDF 110K) also Table 12.12 (XLS 42K)