Inheritance and gift tax.
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blitzracing

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6,422 posts

249 months

Monday 31st August 2020
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Quick tax scenario.

A house has had equity release and the owner then dies within 7 years. Do the benefactors of the equity release get stung for gift tax against the equity release as gift tax kicks in at £3k, or can that value be part of the estates final value for death duty and only attract the 40% tax rate above £500k?

QuickQuack

2,811 posts

130 months

Monday 31st August 2020
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I don't know, but Jane would:

https://www.johnsonastills.com/site/people/profile...

Given the sums involved in equity release, I suspect most of the advice on here will be to seek professional opinion, and quite rightly so, anyway. Jane and her firm have been doing video conversations so it probably wouldn't matter even if you're nowhere near Leicestershire.