Gifts with reservation ― further provisions

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Guidance

Introduction

This guidance note looks at the specific gifts with reservation rules regarding:

•
agricultural and business property
•
substitutions and accretions

These additional rules are to be found in FA 1986, Sch 20.

It also considers the gift with reservation (GWR) consequences when a person redirects property he has inherited under an instrument of variation.

Agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR)

Special rules apply where a donor reserves a benefit in a gift which qualifies for BPR or APR. The availability of those reliefs depends on:

•
the character of the property given
•
the nature and extent of the ownership
•
the duration of ownership and occupation

All the relevant conditions are set out in the Agricultural property relief (APR) and BPR overview guidance notes.

Where a donor makes a gift which qualifies for APR or BPR, and he reserves a benefit in it, it will be necessary to determine whether the property still qualifies for APR or BPR when

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