SDLTM80230 - Compliance: Liaison

Capital Taxes Office

Stamp Office staff should be alert to identify information which may be of value to Capital Taxes Office, such as information that a living person has received a gift of cash or property and that the donor has died within 7 years of the gift being made. In the latter example send details to Capital Taxes Office quoting the donor's full name and, if known, the date of death.

Despite its name, Inheritance Tax can apply to lifetime transfers or gifts. Capital Taxes Office would like to know about

  • significant new income or capital arising from offshore discretionary trusts
  • the creation of discretionary trusts and distributions or assignments of property (transfers of value) from such trusts