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Legislation
Inheritance Tax Act 1984

CHAPTER IV TRANSFERS WITHIN THREE YEARS BEFORE DEATH

  • Section 131 The relief.
  • Section 132 Wasting assets.
  • Section 133 Shares—capital receipts.
  • Section 134 Payments of calls.
  • Section 135 Reorganisation of share capital, etc.
  • Section 136 Transactions of close companies.
  • Section 137 Interests in land.
  • Section 138 Leases.
  • Section 139 Other property.
  • Section 140 Interpretation.
  1. Chapter IV · TRANSFERS WITHIN THREE YEARS BEFORE DEATH
  2. Leases.

Section 138 | Leases.

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)Where the transferred property is the interest of a lessee under a lease the duration of which at the time of the chargeable transfer does not exceed fifty years, then for the purposes of section 131 above the market value of the interest on the relevant date shall be taken to be increased by an amount equal to the appropriate fraction of the market value of the interest at the time of the chargeable transfer.

(2)In subsection (1) above, “the appropriate fraction” means the fraction—F1

Formula

P(1)-P(2)P(1)

where

Notes

  1. F1

    Words in s. 138 substituted (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the substituting Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 289, 290, Sch. 10 para. 8(7) (with ss. 60, 101(1), 201(3)).

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