IHTM40000 - Clearance certificates: contents

Summary
What are clearance certificates?
Who can apply for clearance certificates?
Who is covered by a clearance certificate?
When can an application for clearance be made?
What is not covered by a clearance certificate?
Procedures for dealing with an application for clearance
Completing the clearance certificate
Changes after the issue of the clearance certificate
Non statutory assurances and other types of certificate

Summary

IHTM40001Summary

What are clearance certificates?

IHTM40010What are clearance certificates?

Who can apply for clearance certificates?

IHTM40011Who can apply for clearance certificates?

Who is covered by a clearance certificate?

IHTM40012Who is covered by a clearance certificate?

When can an application for clearance be made?

IHTM40013When can an application for clearance be made?

What is not covered by a clearance certificate?

IHTM40014What is not covered by a clearance certificate?

Procedures for dealing with an application for clearance

IHTM40021Key stages (chart)

Who is responsible for dealing with an application for clearance?

IHTM40031Open and recently closed cases
IHTM40032Closed cases held in store
IHTM40040Is a certificate appropriate?
IHTM40041Is the application for clearance in the approved format?

Is the application for clearance premature?

IHTM40051General
IHTM40052Form IHT 30 received before full details of the estate are known
IHTM40053Holding the form IHT 30 on file
IHTM40054Returning the form IHT 30

Checking form IHT 30

IHTM40061What to check (chart)?
IHTM40062When to check the IHT 30
IHTM40063Sections A, B and C
IHTM40064Section D
IHTM40065Section E

Section F

IHTM40071Checking applicants signatures on form IHT 30
IHTM40072Signatures of corporate or public trustees on form IHT 30
IHTM40073Signatures of attorneys on form IHT 30
IHTM40080Returning incorrectly completed clearance certificates

Completing the clearance certificate

IHTM40091Certifying the IHT 30 (chart)

Conditions to be satisfied before certifying the IHT 30

IHTM40101General
IHTM40102Tax not paid at another title

Outstanding penalty issues

IHTM40111Applications for clearance received in PC&S
IHTM40112Applications for clearance received in Compliance Group
IHTM40120Signing the certificate

Qualifying the certificate

IHTM40131Instalments
IHTM40132Timber
IHTM40133Conditionally exempt property
IHTM40134Blocked foreign assets

Changes after the issue of the clearance certificate

IHTM40141Changes to the value of assets
IHTM40142Additional assets
IHTM40143Fraud or failure to disclose material facts
IHTM40144Sales of land or buildings
IHTM40145Sales of unquoted shares
IHTM40146Form IHT30 issued prematurely
IHTM40147Statutory amendments to the estate
IHTM40148Remissions

Non-statutory assurances and other types of certificate

IHTM40151Non-statutory assurances on taxpaying estates
IHTM40153Cancelling a charge on property
IHTM40154Certificate of tax paid