Zahra Kanani outlines Green v HMRC [2015] which upholds the principle that BPR does not apply to furnished holiday lets and clarifies ‘investment’ activities. ‘From the tribunal’s analysis, it was clear that the extra services provided were insufficient to demonstrate that the business is other than “mainly” one of holding the Flagstaff property as an …
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Catherine Ball examines the argument for reform of inheritance tax relief after two revealing reports ‘The NAO’s report, published in April, shows that the value of these two reliefs has grown faster than the amount of IHT collected. APR and BPR were two out of the four tax reliefs that had increased by more than …
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Wills & Trusts Law Reports | July/August 2013 #131The appellant trustees appealed from a notice of determination dated 16 February 2010 whereby HMRC refused inheritance tax business property relief on the basis that immediately before the ten-year anniversary on 22 September 2007, none of the property comprised in the settlement was relevant business property for the purposes of s104 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (IHTA). HMRC contended that the business was excluded under s105(3) IHTA in that it consisted ‘mainly of… making or holding investments’.
The principal asset of the settleme...
