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The government pulled in £4.4bn from inheritance tax (IHT) in the past six months as more families were “quietly” pulled into the net, data from the Treasury shows.

The amount raised between April and September this year is up 2.3 per cent and is due to be a record for the government.

The boost to the Treasury coffers is in part due to frozen thresholds which have remained in place for years, meaning more and more people

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