IHTM04442 - Legal background: connected persons

Other than any specific reference to the meaning of ‘connected persons’ for Inheritance Tax, whether a person is connected with another has to be decided by reference to TCGA92/S286. The subsections are as follows:

TCGA92/S286 (1): any provision that one person is connected with another is to be taken as meaning they are connected with one another.

TCGA92/S286 (2): a person is connected with an individual (X) if that person is

• the husband, wife or civil partner (IHTM11032) of X, or
• a relative of X, or
• the husband, wife or civil partner of a relative of X, or
• a relative of the husband, wife or civil partner of X.

TCGA92/S286 (3): a person in his capacity as trustee of a settlement is connected with

• the settlor, and
• any person connected with the settlor, and
• any body corporate connected with the settlement.

TCGA92/S286 (3A): a body corporate is connected with a settlement if

• it is a close company and the participators include the trustees of the settlement, or
• it is controlled by such a close company.

TCGA92/S286 (4): a partner (except in relation to acquisitions or disposals of partnership assets pursuant to bona fide commercial arrangements) is connected with

• any person he is in partnership with, and
• the husband, wife or civil partner of any person he is in partnership with, and
• a relative of any person he is in partnership with.

TCGA92/S286 (5): a company is connected with another company if

• the same person has control of both, or
• the persons controlling both companies are connected, or
• there are certain common links of control.

TCGA92/S286 (6): a company is connected with another person if

• that person has control of the company, or
• that person and persons connected with him together have control of the company.

TCGA92/S286 (7): persons acting together to secure or exercise control of a company are connected with

• each other, and
• persons acting on their direction.