The gifts with reservations provisions apply where the possession or enjoyment of the property gifted is not assumed by the donee to the entire exclusion or virtually the entire exclusion of the donor. The rules mean that a transferor cannot give away property for IHT purposes and benefit from it later. In such a case the value of the gift with reservation remains in the estate of the transferor at their death.
The gifts with reservation regime will not
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