IHTM27121 - Inscribed and registered securities: usual location


For the purposes of Inheritance Tax an inscribed and registered security (A shareholding in a Company for example) is located at the place where the title of ownership must be registered - see Att Gen v Higgins [1857] 2 H and N 339.

However, some international securities have different rules (IHTM27078).

It makes no difference that the business of the company is totally administered outside the country in which the register is kept: see Baelz v Public Trustee [1926] Ch 863.