IHTM27075 - Locality of assets (situs): chattels

Chattels are situated where they happen to be at the relevant time.

By extra-statutory concession, if a work of art normally kept outside the UK would become liable to IHT solely because it happened to be situated in the UK at the relevant date, the liability will be waived if it was brought here solely for public exhibition, cleaning or restoration.

Any case in which the benefit of the concession is claimed, or its application raised as a possibility, must be referred to Heritage Section.