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Trust & trustee

20 November 2015
Issue: 7677 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Barclays Wealth Trustees (Jersey) Ltd and another v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2015] EWHC 2878 (Ch), [2015] All ER (D) 89 (Nov)

The Chancery Division dismissed the appellant taxpayers’ appeal against a determination of a liability for inheritance tax said to have arisen in relation to the 10-year charge applicable to trusts. It held that, on the correct interpretation of the Inheritance Act 1984, the property in question was not “excluded property” and so the 10-year charge applicable to trusts would apply.

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