IHTM24000 - Agricultural relief: contents


Introduction 

Overview of agricultural relief

Unquoted shares

Agricultural property

Character appropriate

Agricultural purposes

Occupation

Share farming and contract farming agreements

Occupation of farmhouses, cottages and farm buildings

Ownership

Replacement property

Successions

Successive transfers

The rate of relief

Value and valuation

The District Valuer

Lifetime transfers

Gifts With Reservation (GWRs)

Agricultural tenancies

Agricultural Holdings Act (AJA) 1986

Inheritance tax implications of the AHA 1986 and Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991

Agricultural Tenancies Act (ATA) 1995

Other issues

Introduction


IHTM24001

Introduction to agricultural relief

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Overview of agricultural relief


IHTM24011

Outline of the relief

IHTM24012

General conditions

IHTM24013

Information sources

IHTM24014

Reviewing the information.

IHTM24015

Sole farming businesses

IHTM24016

Farming partnerships

IHTM24017

Deceased as landlord

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Unquoted shares


IHTM24020

Introduction

IHTM24021

Sale within three years of death

IHTM24022

Rate of relief

IHTM24023

Occupation and ownership tests

IHTM24024

Replacements

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Agricultural property


IHTM24030

Definition of agricultural property

IHTM24031

Definition of agricultural land or pasture

IHTM24032

Woodlands

IHTM24033

Buildings used for intensive rearing of livestock or fish

IHTM24034

Farm cottages

IHTM24035

Farm buildings

IHTM24036

Farmhouses

IHTM24037

Agricultural ‘property’

IHTM24038

Scotland

IHTM24039

Fishing rights

IHTM24040

Contracts and trusts for sale

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Character appropriate


IHTM24050

Introduction

IHTM24051

Farmhouses

IHTM24052

How are the factors to be balanced

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Agricultural purposes


IHTM24060

Introduction

IHTM24061

Qualifying uses of land

IHTM24062

Other uses of land

IHTM24063

Short rotation coppice

IHTM24064

Set-aside scheme

IHTM24065

The habitat scheme

IHTM24066

Countryside stewardship scheme

IHTM24067

Farm woodland premium scheme and other agri-environmental schemes

IHTM24068

Stud farms

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Occupation


IHTM24070

Introduction

IHTM24071

The occupation condition

IHTM24072

When is property occupied?

IHTM24073

When is land let on grazing licence?

IHTM24074

Definition of a lease as opposed to a licence

IHTM24075

Northern Ireland

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Share farming and contract farming agreements


IHTM24080

Introduction

IHTM24081

Share farming

IHTM24082

Contract farming

IHTM24083

When is property not occupied?

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Occupation of farmhouses, cottages and farm buildings


IHTM24090

Introduction

IHTM24091

Farmhouses

IHTM24092

Cottages

IHTM24093

Farm buildings

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Ownership


IHTM24100

Introduction

IHTM24101

Meaning of ownership

IHTM24102

Reversionary interests

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Replacement property


IHTM24110

Introduction

IHTM24111

Application of IHTA84/S118

IHTM24112

Limitation of relief

IHTM24113

Example of limiting the relief

IHTM24114

Interaction with business relief

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Successions


IHTM24120

Introduction

IHTM24121

Application of IHTA84/S120

IHTM24122

The occupation requirement

IHTM24123

Example of the occupation requirement

IHTM24124

Example of occupation by a company

IHTM24125

Application with the transitional provisions (working farmer relief)

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Successive transfers


IHTM24130

Introduction

IHTM24131

Application of IHTA84/S121

IHTM24132

The occupation condition

IHTM24133

Limitations on relief

IHTM24134

Examples of relief

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The rate of relief


IHTM24140

Introduction

IHTM24141

Vacant possession and the higher rate of relief

IHTM24142

Grazing licences and the higher rate of relief

IHTM24143

Tenancies created on or after 1/9/1995 and the higher rate

IHTM24144

Vacant possession and ESC F17

IHTM24145

Transitional provision for relief (working farmers relief) at the higher rate for let land

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Value and valuation


IHTM24150

Agricultural value of agricultural property

IHTM24151

Excess of value over agricultural value and Interaction with business relief

IHTM24152

Treatment of mortgages and debts

IHTM24153

Partnership interests

IHTM24154

Buildings and fixtures erected by tenant farmers

IHTM24155

Interaction with exemptions

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The District Valuer


IHTM24160

Introduction

IHTM24161

General issues

IHTM24162

Extent of agricultural property in the estate

IHTM24163

Investigation of character appropriate prior to VOA referral

IHTM24164

VOA interim report

IHTM24165

Role of the DV

IHTM24166

Character appropriate

IHTM24167

Additional advice on agricultural property

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Lifetime transfers


IHTM24170

Introduction

IHTM24171

Transfer of part of an agricultural holding

IHTM24172

Additional conditions

IHTM24173

The four additional conditions

IHTM24174

The original property

IHTM24175

Where shares or securities are original property

IHTM24176

Continuing ownership

IHTM24177

The remaining agricultural property

IHTM24178

Continuing occupation

IHTM24179

The transferee

IHTM24180

Failure to satisfy the additional conditions

IHTM24181

Replacement property (other than shares or securities)

IHTM24182

Replacement property (shares or securities)

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Gifts With Reservation (GWRs)


IHTM24200

Introduction

IHTM24201

Qualifying conditions (excluding shares)

IHTM24202

Agricultural property at the time of the GWR charge

IHTM24203

Qualifying conditions for shares and securities

IHTM24204

Interaction with business relief for shares and securities

IHTM24205

Notional transfer by the donee

IHTM24206

Disposal of gifted property by the donee

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Agricultural tenancies


IHTM24210

Introduction

IHTM24211

Overview of the legislation 1948 to 1995

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Agricultural Holdings Act (AHA) 1986


IHTM24220

What is an agricultural holding?

IHTM24221

The protected tenancy

IHTM24222

Extension to statutory protection

IHTM24223

Exceptions to statutory protection

IHTM24224

Security of tenure

IHTM24225

Sub-tenancies of agricultural land

IHTM24226

Succession to agricultural holdings

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Inheritance tax implications of the AHA 1986 and Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991


IHTM24230

Introduction

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Agricultural Tenancies Act (ATA) 1995

IHTM24240

Introduction

IHTM24241

Tenancies excluded from the 1995 Act

IHTM24242

The contract of an ATA 1995 Act tenancy

IHTM24243

Inheritance tax implications of the ATA 1995

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Other issues


IHTM24250

Milk quotas

IHTM24251

Valuing milk quotas

IHTM24252

Sugar beet quotas

IHTM24253

Comparison with the income provisions (for farming and exploitation)

IHTM24254

Single payment scheme

IHTM24255

Form IHT414

IHTM24256

European Economic Area (EEA) - transfers of value on or after 22nd April 2009

IHTM24257

European Economic Area (EEA) - retrospective application for transfers of value before 22 April 2009