- 1. The Scope of the Book: Estate Planning Introduced
- 1.4.5 Three recent taxpayer successes
- 1.5.7 Transactions in securities
- 1.5.13 Two offshore disclosure regimes: 2007 and 2009
- 1.6.1 ‘Spotlights’ and ‘Signposts’
- 4. Trusts: Tax-Efficient Management
- 6. The Family Business
- 9. Investments
- 11. Pensions
- 11.2.2 Withdrawing benefits
- 11.2.3 Transitional provisions
- 11.2.4 Unregistered schemes
- 11.3.1 The basic rule
- 11.3.2 Tax relief
- 11.3.3 Scheme input periods
- 11.3.4 Occupational schemes
- 11.4.1 SIPPs and SSASs distinguished
- 11.4.3 Transactions with employers
- 11.5.2 Tax-free cash
- 11.5.5 Death benefits
- 11.5.6 Age 75: ASP or annuity purchase?
- 11.5.7 Maximise or minimise income in retirement?
- 12. Charitable Giving
- 15. Leaving the UK
- 16. Non-UK Domiciliaries Living in the UK
- 17. Offshore Trusts and Companies
- 18. Wills
- 20. Compliance
2 - Inheritance Tax Mitigation: The Basics
Chapter: 2 - Inheritance Tax Mitigation: The Basics
The marriage/civil partnership exemption
2.2.7
Quite a bit of value can be extracted from the chargeable estate(s) when a son or daughter (or step-son or daughter) gets married or enters into a civil partnership (IHTA 1984 s22). The exempt amounts depend on the relationship between donor and donee, as follows:
• £5,000 per parent;
• £2,500 for grandparents; and
• £1,000 for all others.
Gifts in kind as well as in cash are exempt, as are certain types of settled gift. The gift must be an outright gift to or for a party to the marriage/civil partnership: hence there is no exemption if the celebrations are called off.