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28th July 2015
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Inheritance Tax, Trusts and Estates, Private Client, Property Tax by Forbes Dawson
Recap
In April we outlined proposed rules for IHT breaks for £1M homes. Back then it was thought that couples would need to own a home worth £1M to fully benefit from the reliefs.
We made the point that this would incentivise people to trade up their houses at just the time when they may well be considering downsizing.
George Osborne seems to have taken the contents of this Tax Bite on board (!) and he has come up with more sensible proposals that he announced in the recent budget.
Key Points of New Rules
Planning Point
This will mean that there will ultimately be an ‘IHT hotspot’ for estates worth between £2M and £2.35M. Currently gifts at this level will save IHT at a marginal rate of 40% (subject to 7 year gift rule), however after 5 April 2020 this will be at 60% as any gifts will (all other things being equal) ‘undo’ the erosion of the relief.
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