Finance Act 1975

Allocation of relief

22 (1) The reduction referred to in the following provisions of this paragraph is the reduction in tax resulting from paragraphs 1 and 10 to 13 above, after allowing for the reduction in the effective rate at which tax is chargeable.

(2) The reduction shall reduce tax attributable to gifts bearing their own tax before reducing tax attributable to other gifts and, subject thereto, shall reduce the tax attributable to different gifts in proportion to their value.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below, the reduction shall reduce only tax falling on a gift with respect to which the transfer of value is exempt and, if it is so exempt only up to a limit, shall not reduce tax falling on so much of the gift as is outside the limit; and in particular, where such a gift is a gift of a share in residue or in any property, the reduction shall not reduce the tax falling on so much of the residue or that property as is not such a gift or is outside that limit.

(4) The reduction may reduce tax attributable to specific gifts with regard to which the transfer is exempt or to so much of such gifts as is within the limit up to which it is exempt, notwithstanding that it falls on residue.