§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the administration and compliance costs of inheritance tax. [134648]
§ Dawn PrimaroloCosts of administration were £30.1 million for the year 1999–2000, or 1.5 pence per pound collected. I have no current estimate of the compliance costs of inheritance tax; they were estimated for 1986–87 at about 4 pence per pound collected. (Sandford et al, "Administrative and Compliance Costs of Taxation", Fiscal Publications, 1989).