1995 No. 3032

INHERITANCE TAX

The Inheritance Tax (Indexation) Order 1995

Made

The Treasury, in pursuance of section 8(4) of the Inheritance Tax Act 19841, hereby make the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Inheritance Tax (Indexation) Order 1995.

2

The amounts which, unless Parliament otherwise determines, will be treated by virtue of section 8 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 as specified in the Table in Schedule 1 to that Act2 in relation to chargeable transfers on or after 6th April 1996 are as follows—

TABLE OF RATES OF TAX

Portion of value

Rate of tax

Lower Limit

Upper Limit

Per cent.

£

£

0

160,000

NIL

160,000

—

40

Derek ConwaySimon BurnsTwo of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, made under section 8 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (formerly the Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984) (“section 8”) substitutes a new Table of rate bands and rates in Schedule 1 to that Act for the Table which was substituted by the Inheritance Tax (Indexation) Order 1994 (S.I.1994/3011) in relation to chargeable transfers made in the year beginning 6th April 1995.

The figures in the first and second columns of the new Table are the amounts specified in the Table in Schedule 1 to the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (as so substituted) increased by the amount of the percentage increase in the retail prices index for September 1995 over that for September 1994, and rounded up to the nearest £1,000 in accordance with subsections (2) and (3) of section 8 (as amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1986 and section 197 of the Finance Act 1993). The “retail prices index”is defined in subsection (3) of section 8, as amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Transfer of Functions (Economic Statistics) Order 1989 (S.I.1989/992), as “the general index of retail prices (for all items) published by the Central Statistical Office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer”. The retail prices index for September 1994 is 145.0 and for September 1995 is 150.6 (based on January 1987 as 100) (see Table 3.1 on page T26 of the October 1995 issue (No. 504) of Economic Trends, a publication of the Government Statistical Service).

The new Table will apply in relation to chargeable transfers on or after 6th April 1996 unless Parliament otherwise determines.