Section 266: More than one chargeable transfer on one day.

Inheritance Tax Act 1984 · 1984 c. 51View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IX: MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTARY

Where the value transferred by more than one chargeable transfer made by the same person on the same day depends on the order in which the transfers are made, they shall be treated as made in the order which results in the lowest value chargeable.

Subject to subsection (1) above, the rate at which the tax is charged on the values transferred by two or more chargeable transfers made by the same person on the same day shall be the effective rate at which tax would have been charged if those transfers had been a single chargeable transfer of the same total value.

The chargeable transfers referred to in subsections (1) and (2) above do not include a transfer made on the death of the transferor.

Chargeable transfers under Chapter III of Part III of this Act shall if they relate to the same settlement be treated for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2) above as made by the same person.

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