The transfer on death may be wholly or partly exempt. Your
concern is to quantify the chargeable transfer (
IHTM04027) and you need to confine your
consideration of the estate to the minimum you need to do to
achieve this.
You first need to satisfy yourself that the estate, or part
of it, is exempt. But if the estate is wholly exempt this is all
you need to do as far as the estate itself is concerned. You do not
need to value the estate and you should not enter into
correspondence with taxpayers about the value of items that are not
chargeable to tax. What you should consider though is the
possibility of lifetime gifts in excess of the threshold for tax.
If there is any information included in the account or from other
sources (
IHTM09251) that suggests that there is
a risk of substantial tax being lost as a result of gifts being
omitted from the account then you will need to make further
enquiries with the taxpayers.
If the estate is partly exempt then what you need to do will
depend on whether
