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Inheritance Tax Act 1984

CHAPTER I GENERAL

  • Section 18 Transfers between spouses or civil partners.
  • Section 19 Annual exemption.
  • Section 20 Small gifts.
  • Section 21 Normal expenditure out of income.
  • Section 22 Gifts in consideration of marriage or civil partnership.
  • Section 23 Gifts to charities or registered clubs.
  • Section 24 Gifts to political parties.
  • Section 24A Gifts to housing associations.
  • Section 25 Gifts for national purposes, etc.
  • Section 26 Gifts for public benefit.
  • Section 26A Potentially exempt transfer of property subsequently held for national purposes etc.
  • Section 27 Maintenance funds for historic buildings, etc.
  • Section 28 Employee trusts.
  • Section 28A Employee-ownership trusts
  • Section 29 Loans—modifications of exemptions.
  • Section 29A Abatement of exemption where claim settled out of beneficiary’s own resources.
  1. Chapter I · GENERAL
  2. Gifts for national purposes, etc.

Section 25 | Gifts for national purposes, etc.

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)A transfer of value is an exempt transfer to the extent that the value transferred by it is attributable to property which becomes the property of a body within Schedule 3 to this Act.

(2)Subsections (2) to (5) of section 23 and subsection (4) of section 24 above shall apply in relation to subsection (1) above as they apply in relation to section 24(1), except that section 23(3) shall not prevent subsection (1) above from applying in relation to property consisting of the benefit of an agreement restricting the use of land.

(3)A transfer of value is an exempt transfer to the extent that the value transferred by it is attributable to property that is being transferred in the circumstances described in paragraph 1 of Schedule 14 to the Finance Act 2012 (gifts to the nation).F1

(4)To the extent that the value transferred by a transfer of value made on the death of a member of a pension scheme is attributable to the member’s notional pension property—F2

(a)the value transferred is treated for the purposes of this section as also attributable to any property that on the death of the member is given under the scheme—F2

(i)to a body within Schedule 3, orF2

(ii)in the circumstances described in paragraph 1 of Schedule 14 to the Finance Act 2012 (gifts to nation), andF2

(b)section 23(2) does not (despite subsection (2)) apply in relation to subsection (1).F2

Notes

  1. F1

    S. 25(3) inserted (17.7.2012) by Finance Act 2012 (c. 14), Sch. 14 para. 27

  2. F2

    S. 25(4) inserted (with application in accordance with s. 71 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), ss. 69(7), 71

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