diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
index 8ea6bae85..8171d4e1d 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
@@ -332,8 +332,9 @@ As of version `1.26.0` of this chart, by simply not providing any clusterIP valu
 | controller.image.tag | string | `"v1.10.0"` |  |
 | controller.ingressClass | string | `"nginx"` | For backwards compatibility with ingress.class annotation, use ingressClass. Algorithm is as follows, first ingressClassName is considered, if not present, controller looks for ingress.class annotation |
 | controller.ingressClassByName | bool | `false` | Process IngressClass per name (additionally as per spec.controller). |
-| controller.ingressClassResource | object | `{"aliases":[],"controllerValue":"k8s.io/ingress-nginx","default":false,"enabled":true,"name":"nginx","parameters":{}}` | This section refers to the creation of the IngressClass resource. IngressClasses are immutable and cannot be changed after creation. We do not support namespaced IngressClasses, yet, so a ClusterRole and a ClusterRoleBinding is required. |
+| controller.ingressClassResource | object | `{"aliases":[],"annotations":{},"controllerValue":"k8s.io/ingress-nginx","default":false,"enabled":true,"name":"nginx","parameters":{}}` | This section refers to the creation of the IngressClass resource. IngressClasses are immutable and cannot be changed after creation. We do not support namespaced IngressClasses, yet, so a ClusterRole and a ClusterRoleBinding is required. |
 | controller.ingressClassResource.aliases | list | `[]` | Aliases of this IngressClass. Creates copies with identical settings but the respective alias as name. Useful for development environments with only one Ingress Controller but production-like Ingress resources. `default` gets enabled on the original IngressClass only. |
+| controller.ingressClassResource.annotations | object | `{}` | Annotations to be added to the IngressClass resource. |
 | controller.ingressClassResource.controllerValue | string | `"k8s.io/ingress-nginx"` | Controller of the IngressClass. An Ingress Controller looks for IngressClasses it should reconcile by this value. This value is also being set as the `--controller-class` argument of this Ingress Controller. Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#ingress-class |
 | controller.ingressClassResource.default | bool | `false` | If true, Ingresses without `ingressClassName` get assigned to this IngressClass on creation. Ingress creation gets rejected if there are multiple default IngressClasses. Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#default-ingress-class |
 | controller.ingressClassResource.enabled | bool | `true` | Create the IngressClass or not |
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-ingressclass.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-ingressclass.yaml
index e439e0adb..18cace48c 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-ingressclass.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-ingressclass.yaml
@@ -9,10 +9,13 @@ metadata:
     {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
     {{- end }}
   name: {{ .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.name }}
-  {{- if .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.default }}
   annotations:
+    {{- if .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.default }}
     ingressclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class: "true"
-  {{- end }}
+    {{- end }}
+    {{- if .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.annotations }}
+      {{- toYaml .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.annotations | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
 spec:
   controller: {{ .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.controllerValue }}
   {{- with .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.parameters }}
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
index 2a361614c..37aa0f73b 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ controller:
     # Ingress creation gets rejected if there are multiple default IngressClasses.
     # Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#default-ingress-class
     default: false
+    # -- Annotations to be added to the IngressClass resource.
+    annotations: {}
     # -- Controller of the IngressClass. An Ingress Controller looks for IngressClasses it should reconcile by this value.
     # This value is also being set as the `--controller-class` argument of this Ingress Controller.
     # Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#ingress-class