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Inheritance Tax: election for Inheritance Tax to apply to asset previously owned (IHT500)

Use form IHT500 if you pay Income Tax on a property or asset you previously owned but still benefit from and you instead want the property to be treated as part of your estate for Inheritance Tax purposes.

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Inheritance Tax: election for Inheritance Tax to apply to asset previously owned (IHT500)

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Notes for completion of form IHT500 (IHT501)

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Use form IHT500 if you pay Income Tax on a property or asset you previously owned but still benefit from and you want the property to be treated as part of your estate for Inheritance Tax purposes instead.

Email HMRC to ask for this form in Welsh (Cymraeg).

Published 4 April 2014
Last updated 28 October 2021 + show all updates
  1. Added a new address to send the election form to once completed.

  2. First published.