IHTM44111 | Pre-owned assets: insurance based products: introduction

From HM Revenue & Customs · Inheritance Tax Manual

Insurance policies have a unique relationship to Inheritance Tax being linked to the death of the life assured. Consequently, a number of products have been designed to avoid the reservation of benefit rules. The POA consequences for these and some other insurance based products are as follows

  • discounted gift trust ()

  • gift and loan trusts ()

  • pension policies ()

  • business trusts or partnership policies ()

  • policies settled on trust before 18 March 1986.