PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances (27 February 2020)
Question Asked
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the estimated annual cost of providing tax relief to beneficiaries on pension pots inherited before the recipient is 75.
Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)
Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)
Answer
Since April 2015, individuals were able to pass on their unused defined contribution pension savings up to their Lifetime Allowance to any nominated beneficiary when they die, instead of paying the 55 per cent Income Tax charge which applied to most cases prior to that date.
The Exchequer cost of this change was set out at Autumn Statement 2014. In particular, information has been published on page 46 of the ‘Autumn Statement 2014 policy costings’ document, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/384071/AS2014_policy_costings_final.pdf
Answered by:
John Glen (Conservative)
5 March 2020
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