Heritage property strategies

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Trusts and Inheritance Tax
Guidance

Heritage property strategies

Copyright © 2026 LexisNexis
Produced by Tolley in association with William Hadley at Boodle Hatfield LLP
Trusts and Inheritance Tax
Guidance
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Where an owner has claimed, or is considering claiming conditional exemption on heritage property, they may also wish to consider whether or not to establish a heritage maintenance fund; the income and capital of which may be used to support the conditionally exempt heritage property.

If, on the other hand, they decide that they or their descendants can no longer maintain the heritage property, they may consider disposing of the property by gift or sale to a charity or a body listed in IHTA 1984, Sch 3 or, alternately, to HMRC in lieu of tax.

Maintenance funds

As part of the policy to preserve national heritage property, heritage maintenance funds may be established. These settled funds, whose assets (usually not heritage property itself) and income are used for the maintenance of heritage property, receive advantageous IHT treatment.

Transfers of property into a maintenance fund are exempt transfers provided the maintenance fund meets the qualifying conditions set out below.

The property does not rank as relevant property for the purposes of the ten-year

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