IHTA 1984, s 262 makes express provision for certain transfers of value where the transferor makes subsequent payments or transfers of property under it. Its effect is to cause the transfer of value to be made in instalments corresponding to the payments or transfers instead of there being a single transfer of value at the outset. When introduced1 it probably gave an advantage to the taxpayer where it applied, but it is now likely to be a disadvantage to the taxpayer for it to apply to a potentially exempt transfer (see I3.311–I3.319) because it causes transfers to be effective from a later date than would otherwise be the case.
Calculation of IHT
Where a disposition made for a consideration in money or money's worth is a transfer of value and, in pursuance of it, the transferor makes any payment or transfers any asset more than one year after the disposition, IHT (if any) is charged on each such occasion.
The IHT is computed as though each payment or transfer were made in pursuance of a separate disposition
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