Finance Act 1986

100 Capital transfer tax to be known as inheritance tax. U.K.

(1) On and after the passing of this Act, the tax charged under the Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984 (in this Part of this Act referred to as “the 1984 Act”) shall be known as inheritance tax and, accordingly, on and after that passing,—

(a) the 1984 Act may be cited as the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 ; and

(b) subject to subsection (2) below, any reference to capital transfer tax in the 1984 Act, in any other enactment passed before or in the same Session as this Act or in any document executed, made, served or issued on or before the passing of this Act or at any time thereafter shall have effect as a reference to inheritance tax.

(2) Subsection (1)(b) above does not apply where the reference to capital transfer tax relates to a liability arising before the passing of this Act.

(3) In the following provisions of this Part of this Act, any reference to tax except where it is a reference to a named tax is a reference to inheritance tax and, in so far as it occurs in a provision which relates to a time before the passing of this Act, includes a reference to capital transfer tax.