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Shelford and Others v Revenue and Customs (Inheritance Tax – Avoidance – ‘Home Loan Scheme’): FTTTx 27 Jan 2020

INHERITANCE TAX – avoidance – ‘home loan scheme’ – purported sale of house to interest-in-possession trust – mislabelled agreements – validity of sale – s2 Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 – s163 Inheritance Tax Act 1984 Citations: [2020] UKFTT 53 (TC) Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Inheritance Tax Updated: 27 November 2022; … Continue reading Shelford and Others v Revenue and Customs (Inheritance Tax – Avoidance – ‘Home Loan Scheme’): FTTTx 27 Jan 2020

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Pitt and Another v Holt and Another: ChD 18 Jan 2010

The claimant sought to unravel a settlement she had made as receiver for her late husband, saying that it had been made without consideration of its Inheritance Tax implications. The Revenue said that there was no operative mistake so as to allow the rule in Hastings-Bass to apply allowing the variation. Held: For the rule … Continue reading Pitt and Another v Holt and Another: ChD 18 Jan 2010

Barclays Bank Trust Company Ltd v Revenue and Customs: CA 14 Jul 2011

Parents had each left a share of their estate to the bank on trusts for their disabled son. The revenue said that the gifts were caught by and taxable by virtue of sections 5, 49 and 89 of the 1984 Act, the residuary estates of both parents forming part of the son’s estate because section … Continue reading Barclays Bank Trust Company Ltd v Revenue and Customs: CA 14 Jul 2011

Starke and another (Executors of Brown decd) v Inland Revenue Commissioners: CA 23 May 1995

The deceased had owned a site of 2.5 acres on which were built a large farmhouse, and other outbuildings. Held: The court identified the identify the three separate dimensions to the definition of agricultural property under the Act. The phrase ‘agricultural land’ in section 115(2) did not include buildings, and so the site could not … Continue reading Starke and another (Executors of Brown decd) v Inland Revenue Commissioners: CA 23 May 1995

Glowacki (Deceased) v Revenue and Customs: SCIT 21 Aug 2007

SCIT INHERITANCE TAX – Deed of Variation – variation purporting to take effect as a gift by the deceased before death – whether within s 142 IHTA 1984 and an exempt transfer under s 17 – no – Revenue determination that nil rate band to be set against value of ‘gifted’ property based on variation … Continue reading Glowacki (Deceased) v Revenue and Customs: SCIT 21 Aug 2007

Palliser v Revenue and Customs Re Wedderburn Road: UTLC 16 Mar 2018

Inheritance Tax – valuation under s160 Inheritance Tax Act 1984 – maisonette – whether hope value for extension to be taken into account – analysis of comparables – value of appellant’s undivided share determined at pounds 1,603,930 – appeal allowed in part Citations: [2018] UKUT 71 (LC) Links: Bailii Statutes: Inheritance Tax Act 1984 160 … Continue reading Palliser v Revenue and Customs Re Wedderburn Road: UTLC 16 Mar 2018

Starke and Another (Executors of Brown Deceased) v Inland Revenue Commissioners: ChD 24 Feb 1994

Mr Brown, the deceased, had owned a site on which was built a substantial farmhouse, with six bedrooms, and various outbuildings. The site formed part of a farm and the issue was whether the site was ‘agricultural land or pasture’ within the meaning of section 115(2). Held: A site with farm buildings only is not … Continue reading Starke and Another (Executors of Brown Deceased) v Inland Revenue Commissioners: ChD 24 Feb 1994

Routier and Another v Revenue and Customs: CA 16 Sep 2016

Executors appealed against a decision that a residual gift in a will was not charitable and that it was therefore subject to Inheritance Tax arguing that the section if construed in this way was an unlawful restriction on the free movement of capital. The revenue contended that the gift by a Jersey resident was to … Continue reading Routier and Another v Revenue and Customs: CA 16 Sep 2016

Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd and Others: HL 1 Jul 2009

Mutual Knowledge admissible to construe contract The parties had entered into a development contract in respect of a site in Wandsworth, under which balancing compensation was to be paid. They disagreed as to its calculation. Persimmon sought rectification to reflect the negotiations. Held: The appeal succeeded. There were difficulties in construing the contract. The contract … Continue reading Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd and Others: HL 1 Jul 2009

AXA General Insurance Ltd and Others v Lord Advocate and Others: SC 12 Oct 2011

Standing to Claim under A1P1 ECHR The appellants had written employers’ liability insurance policies. They appealed against rejection of their challenge to the 2009 Act which provided that asymptomatic pleural plaques, pleural thickening and asbestosis should constitute actionable harm for the purposes of an action of damages for personal injury. Held: The insurers’ appeals failed. … Continue reading AXA General Insurance Ltd and Others v Lord Advocate and Others: SC 12 Oct 2011

Atkinson and Another v Revenue and Customs: FTTTx 10 Mar 2010

FTTTx Inheritance Tax – Exempt transfers and relief – Agricultural property relief – Farm owned by deceased and let to family farming partnership – Deceased as partner lived in bungalow on the farm until ill-health required him to move to care home – Deceased made occasional visits to bungalow and his possessions remained in it … Continue reading Atkinson and Another v Revenue and Customs: FTTTx 10 Mar 2010

Pickstone v Freemans Plc: HL 30 Jun 1988

The claimant sought equal pay with other, male, warehouse operatives who were doing work of equal value but for more money. The Court of Appeal had held that since other men were also employed on the same terms both as to pay and work, her claim failed. Held: The claim was not disbarred in this … Continue reading Pickstone v Freemans Plc: HL 30 Jun 1988

Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society: HL 19 Jun 1997

Account taken of circumstances wihout ambiguity The respondent gave advice on home income plans. The individual claimants had assigned their initial claims to the scheme, but later sought also to have their mortgages in favour of the respondent set aside. Held: Investors having once assigned their causes of action to the ICS, could not later … Continue reading Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society: HL 19 Jun 1997

Salvesen’s Trustees v Inland Revenue Commissioners: SCS 1930

The court considered the valuation of shares in a notional purchase. The company’s articles of association contained a provision that the company might at any time, by extraordinary resolution, resolve that any shareholder, other than a director or a person holding more than 10 per cent of the shares of the company do transfer his … Continue reading Salvesen’s Trustees v Inland Revenue Commissioners: SCS 1930

Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Lincoln City Council etc: HL 29 Jul 1998

Right of Recovery of Money Paid under Mistake Kleinwort Benson had made payments to a local authority under swap agreements which were thought to be legally enforceable when made. Subsequently, a decision of the House of Lords, (Hazell v. Hammersmith and Fulham) established that such swap agreements were unlawful. Kleinwort Benson then sought restitution of … Continue reading Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Lincoln City Council etc: HL 29 Jul 1998

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