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When Inheritance Tax applies to pensions
Topic: When Inheritance Tax applies to pensions
Inheritance Tax (IHT) is levied on a person’s estate when they die and can also be payable during a person’s lifetime on certain trusts and gifts. The rate of Inheritance Tax payable is 40% on death and 20% on lifetime gifts. There is a nil-rate band, currently £325,000 below which no Inheritance Tax is payable.
A pension is normally free of IHT and unlike many other investments is not counted as part of a deceased persons taxable estate. However, any money taken out of a pension before death becomes part of the deceased estate and could be subject to IHT. This includes any tax-free cash allowance which might not have been spent.
IHT charges relating to pensions can arise in relation to the following:
- Lifetime transfers
- Benefits within the estate
- General power over benefits
- Omission to exercise a right
- Alternatively secured pensions
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