Subject: Date of first consideration of proposal to double inheritance tax threshold

Date: 08 November 2007

Text of request:

A request asking for ‘any information showing when the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling or officials at the Treasury first considered proposals to double the inheritance tax threshold for married people to £600,000’ and particularly ‘when were papers first submitted on this proposal’.

Text for disclosure:

The attached file sets out HM Treasury’s response to this Inheritance tax request.

PDF file of HM Treasury’s response to this request