Potentially Exempt Transfers (PETs)

On your death any large gifts you made during the last 7 years of your life can be added back to your estate. Any gifts made within 3 years of death will be added back at their full value, this reduces by 20% of the value of the gift each year so that after 7 years the IHT value is nil.

This is to avoid you giving everything away on your deathbed and avoiding IHT. Generally small gifts under £250 and all gifts totalling under £3,000 per year don’t count and special gifts such as wedding presents, up to £5,000 to a child, £2,500 for a grand-child or £1,000 for anyone else don’t count either. Most other gifts will be added back to your estate on death and taxed.

At CMIS we specialise in estate tax planning and can help you reduce your estate’s liability and/or insure for the tax. Please call us on 01268 771819 /01780 752100 for an informal conversation to see if we can help.

Also see

Tax Planning Income Tax Income Tax on Savings and Dividends

Capital Gains Tax Entrepreneur's Relief National Insurance

Write a Will Inheritance Tax Charitable Gifts Corporation Tax

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