IHTM14545 - Lifetime transfers: the charge to tax: grossing: tax paid after the death of the transferor

Where:

• no tax was paid in the transferor’s lifetime, and
• following the death the transferor’s personal representatives pay the tax,

you gross-up the lifetime transfer. The instalment facility is not available. (IHTM30191)

In this situation the lifetime tax is a liability deductible against the transferor’s death estate. Where a non-death caseworker deals with the matter separately, they should draw the point to the attention of the caseworker dealing with the death estate.