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Inheritance Tax Act 1984

Crossheading Special cases—charges to tax

  • Section 70 Property leaving temporary charitable trusts.
  • Section 71 Accumulation and maintenance trusts.
  • Section 71A Trusts for bereaved minors
  • Section 71B Charge to tax on property to which section 71A applies
  • Section 71C Sections 71A and 71B: meaning of “bereaved minor”
  • Section 71D Age 18-to-25 trusts
  • Section 71E Charge to tax on property to which section 71D applies
  • Section 71F Calculation of tax charged under section 71E in certain cases
  • Section 71G Calculation of tax charged under section 71E in all other cases
  • Section 71H Sections 71A to 71G: meaning of “parent”
  • Section 72 Property leaving employee trusts and newspaper trusts.
  • Section 73 Pre-1978 protective trusts.
  • Section 74 Pre-1981 trusts for disabled persons.
  • Section 74A Arrangements involving acquisition of interest in settled property etc
  • Section 74B Section 74A: supplementary provision
  • Section 74C Interpretation of sections 74A and 74B
  1. Special cases—charges to tax
  2. Calculation of tax charged under section 71E in certain cases

Section 71F | Calculation of tax charged under section 71E in certain cases F1

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)Where—F1

(a)tax is charged under section 71E above by reason of the happening of an event within subsection (2) below, andF1

(b)that event happens after B has attained the age of 18,F1

the tax is calculated in accordance with this section.

(2)Those events are—F1

(a)B becoming absolutely entitled as mentioned in section 71D(6)(a) above,F1

(b)the death of B, andF1

(c)property being paid or applied for the advancement or benefit of B.F1

(3)The amount of the tax is given by—F1

Formula

Chargeableamount×Relevantfraction×Settlement rate

(4)For the purposes of subsection (3) above, the “Chargeable amount” is—F1

(a)the amount by which the value of property which is comprised in the settlement and to which section 71D above applies is less immediately after the event giving rise to the charge than it would be but for the event, orF1

(b)where the tax is payable out of settled property to which section 71D above applies immediately after the event, the amount which, after deducting the tax, is equal to the amount on which tax would be charged by virtue of paragraph (a) above.F1

(5)For the purposes of subsection (3) above, the “Relevant fraction” is three tenths multiplied by so many fortieths as there are complete successive quarters in the period—F1

(a)beginning with the day on which B attained the age of 18 or, if later, the day on which the property became property to which section 71D above applies, andF1

(b)ending with the day before the occasion of the charge.F1

(6)Where the whole or part of the Chargeable amount is attributable to property that was excluded property at any time during the period mentioned in subsection (5) above then, in determining the “Relevant fraction” in relation to that amount or part, no quarter throughout which that property was excluded property shall be counted.F1

(7)For the purposes of subsection (3) above, the “Settlement rate” is the effective rate (that is to say, the rate found by expressing the tax chargeable as a percentage of the amount on which it is charged) at which tax would be charged on the value transferred by a chargeable transfer of the description specified in subsection (8) below.F1

(8)The chargeable transfer postulated in subsection (7) above is one—F1

(a)the value transferred by which is equal to an amount determined in accordance with subsection (9) below,F1

(b)which is made at the time of the charge to tax under section 71E above by a transferor who has in the period of seven years ending with the day of the occasion of the charge made chargeable transfers having an aggregate value equal to that of any chargeable transfers made by the settlor in the period of seven years ending with the day on which the settlement commenced, disregarding transfers made on that day, andF1

(c)on which tax is charged in accordance with section 7(2) above.F1

(9)The amount referred to in subsection (8)(a) above is equal to the aggregate of—F1

(a)the value, immediately after the settlement commenced, of the property then comprised in it,F1

(b)the value, immediately afer a related settlement commenced, of the property then comprised in it which was property to which section 71D above applied , andF1F2

(c)the value, immediately after it became comprised in the settlement, of any property which became so comprised after the settlement commenced and before the occasion of the charge under section 71E above (whether or not it has remained so comprised).F1

Notes

  1. F1

    Ss. 71A-71H inserted (22.3.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 156, Sch. 20 para. 1(1)(2)

  2. F2

    Words in s. 71F(9)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 7 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2015 (c. 33), Sch. 1 para. 6

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