IHTM14703 - PETs: property representing the property transferred

The property acquired by the deceased from the transferee must be the actual property transferred or must directly or indirectly represent that property.

Gifts of cash may present difficulties, but

  • generally you can treat cash subsequently acquired from the transferee as representing the gifted property

unless

  • the facts are such that this could not have been the case, for example if the cash gift had been used to buy a house still owned by the transferee when he gave cash to the transferor.