IHTM14874 | Lifetime transfers: future payments: payments outstanding at death

From HM Revenue & Customs · Inheritance Tax Manual

Where the transferor dies before all the payments have been made, it falls upon the legal personal representatives () to complete those payments.

You can

  • give an allowance in valuing the transferor’s estate immediately before the death for the non-gratuitous part of the remaining payments, but

  • charge tax on the gratuitous portion.

Review the separate instructions at the liabilities section of the manual. ()