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Legislation
Inheritance Tax Act 1984

CHAPTER I GENERAL

  • Section 160 Market value.
  • Section 161 Related property.
  • Section 162 Liabilities.
  • Section 162A Liabilities attributable to financing excluded property
  • Section 162AA Liabilities attributable to financing non-residents' foreign currency accounts
  • Section 162B Liabilities attributable to financing certain relievable property
  • Section 162C Sections 162A, 162AA and 162B: supplementary provision
  • Section 163 Restriction on freedom to dispose.
  • Section 164 Transferor’s expenses.
  • Section 165 Tax on capital gains.
  • Section 166 Creditors’ rights.
  • Section 167 Life policies, etc.
  • Section 168 Unquoted shares and securities.
  • Section 169 Farm cottages.
  • Section 170 Leases for life, etc.
  1. Chapter I · GENERAL
  2. Liabilities.

Section 162 | Liabilities.

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)A liability in respect of which there is a right to reimbursement shall be taken into account only to the extent (if any) that reimbursement cannot reasonably be expected to be obtained.

(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, where a liability falls to be discharged after the time at which it is to be taken into account it shall be valued as at the time at which it is to be taken into account.

(3)In determining the value of a transferor’s estate immediately after a transfer of value, his liability for inheritance tax shall be computed—F1

(a)without making any allowance for the fact that the tax will not be due immediately, and

(b)as if any tax recovered otherwise than from the transferor (or a person liable for it under section 203(1) below) were paid in discharge of a liability in respect of which the transferor had a right to reimbursement.

(4)A liability which is an incumbrance on any property shall, so far as possible and to the extent that it is not taken to reduce value in accordance with section 162B, be taken to reduce the value of that property.F2

(5)Where a liability taken into account is a liability to a person resident outside the United Kingdom which neither—F3

(a)falls to be discharged in the United Kingdom, nor

(b)is an incumbrance on property in the United Kingdom,

it shall, so far as possible and to the extent that it is not taken to reduce value in accordance with section 162B, be taken to reduce the value of property outside the United Kingdom.

Notes

  1. F1

    See Finance Act 1986 s. 100(1)and (2)—for any liability to tax arising on and after 25July 1986any reference in the legislation to capital transfer tax has effect as a reference to inheritance tax.

  2. F2

    Words in s. 162(4) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 36 para. 5 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 36 para. 2(2)

  3. F3

    Words in s. 162(5) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 36 para. 5 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 36 para. 2(3)

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