Inheritance tax - gift with reservation
......and of course the land on which it is built and the large garden.
The Son then builds a self-contained annex to the house for the mother's sole occupation and constructs an entirely separately fenced garden for the annex.
The Son occupies the house solely by himself.
A Gift with Reservation has clearly occurred (in the absence of mother paying son a commercail rent for the annex) in relation to the original gift - the question is, should the value to be taken into account on death of the mother be the value only of the annex or of the whole property originally gifted?


If the land has been divided,