Chapter IHTM24114

Published date20 March 2016
Record NumberIHTM24114
CourtHM Revenue & Customs

You may need to consider the interaction of business and agricultural relief where the property that has been replaced would have qualified in part for business relief in addition to agricultural relief. (IHTM25121). The operation of this is best illustrated by the example below.

Example

Adam owns and has farmed Fairfield for a number of years. He sells the property for £20m for development in October 2001. The agricultural value of Fairfield was only £3m.

In March 2002, Adam buys The Gallops for £9m (which is wholly attributable to agricultural value) to resume his farming business.

In April 2003, Adam dies. The Gallops then has a value of £10m, wholly agricultural.

The two year occupation (IHTM24071) condition in IHTA84/S118 (1) is satisfied and the ownership conditions for business relief (IHTM25301) are also satisfied. On A’s death, the agricultural relief is restricted by IHTA/S118 (3). The apportionment in IHTM24113 gives the following calculation of agricultural relief

(3,000,000 ÷ 9,000,000) × 10,000,000...

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