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Require political parties to pay inheritance tax on gifts

Submitted by Samuel James Feary on Thursday 5th December 2024

Published on Tuesday 18th February 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Monday 18th August 2025

Signatures: 62

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Charities ~ Charity ~ Fairs ~ Gov ~ Inheritance ~ Inheritance Tax ~ OUTRAGEOUS ~ Outrageously ~ parties ~ Political parties ~ Politicians ~ Politics ~ Reasonable ~ Tax

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Require political parties to pay inheritance tax on gifts

Petition Details

The gov website article on inheritance tax states that gifts to charities and political parties are exempt from inheritance tax. Why do political parties get this special treatment?

Additional Information

We think there is no good reason gifts to political parties should be exempt from IHT. In some circumstances people who have received gifts have to pay inheritance tax and we don't see why political parties should be any different. When there are what we think are outrageous rates of IHT on other gifts (that has already been taxed multiple times in our relatives' lives); what makes it fair that this doesn't have to apply to political parties? We think the politicians seem to do whatever they like.


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