IHTM30051 | Definition and extent of liability (PETs): transferee
From HM Revenue & Customs · Inheritance Tax Manual
‘Transferee’ is shorthand for the wording used in – ‘any person the value of whose estate is increased by the transfer’. Exceptionally it is possible, e.g. by operation of the related property provisions (), for a person to have the value of their Inheritance Tax estate increased by a transfer even though they do not receive any property from the transferor.