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Trust de biens exclus

Constitué par un constituant qui n'est pas domicilié au Royaume-Uni ni réputé y être domicilié, détenant des actifs situés hors du Royaume-Uni qui restent hors du champ des droits de succession britanniques même si le constituant devient ensuite réputé domicilié.

Glendalough, comté de Wicklow · Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0

À qui il s'adresse

Clients non domiciliés arrivant au Royaume-Uni ou y résidant

Ce qu'il fait

  • Doit être constitué avant l'acquisition du domicile fiscal présumé
  • Ne détient que des actifs situés hors du Royaume-Uni
  • Préserve le statut de bien exclu en cas de changement ultérieur de domicile
  • Nécessite un conseil fiscal spécialisé avant signature

Le produit en détail

This trust exists for one narrow set of facts, and outside those facts it does nothing at all. It is settled by someone who is not UK-domiciled and not deemed domiciled, and it holds non-UK situs assets only. Property meeting both conditions is excluded property, and it stays outside the UK inheritance tax net even if the settlor later becomes deemed domiciled through long residence.

The timing is the entire product. Deemed domicile arrives on a residence test, and the trust must be settled before it does — a settlement made the day after is not an excluded property trust and cannot be made into one retrospectively. Advisers dealing with clients who have recently arrived in the United Kingdom are working against a clock that started before they were instructed.

The situs of every asset matters as much as the timing. UK situs property inside the trust is not excluded, so what goes in has to be checked asset by asset rather than assumed. Specialist tax advice is a precondition of execution, not a recommendation attached to it: we will not proceed without confirmation that the client has taken it.

Documentation

La documentation produit est remise aux intermédiaires accrédités. Demandez-la à votre souscripteur, ou demandez-la via le formulaire de demande.

  • Acte de trustSur demande
  • Note technique sur les biens exclusSur demande

Comment cela fonctionne

Ce qui se passe, dans l'ordre

De la première demande jusqu'à la mise en place de la garantie, du contrat ou de la ligne.

  1. Domicile status is established by the client’s own advisers

    Not UK-domiciled, and not deemed domiciled. In writing, before anything else happens.

  2. The residence clock is checked

    How many of the last twenty tax years the client has been UK resident, and therefore how long there is. This is often the binding constraint.

  3. The assets are identified by situs

    Non-UK situs only, checked individually. A single UK situs asset inside the trust is not excluded property.

  4. The trust is settled before deemed domicile arises

    The date is the product. After it, this structure is unavailable for this client.

  5. The trust is administered with situs discipline

    Additions and reinvestments are checked on the same basis for the life of the trust.

La Custom House sur les quais nord de la Liffey, à Dublin
La Custom House, Dublin · Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0

Les chiffres

Un exemple chiffré

Des calculs donnés à titre indicatif, pour que la structure du produit se voie plutôt qu'elle se décrive. Rien ici n'est une offre ni une projection.

A client in their twelfth year of UK residence

The timing question, written out. The residence figures are the general test; whether they apply to a particular client is for their own advisers to confirm.

UK tax years of residence to date
12
Deemed domicile generally arises at
15 of the last 20 tax years
Tax years remaining to settle
3
Assets available, non-UK situs
£2,400,000
Assets held, UK situsCannot be excluded property, and stays out of this trust
£850,000
Settled into the trust
£2,400,000
Status if settled in time
Excluded property, and it survives a later change of domicile
Status if settled after
Not excluded property, and not fixable afterwards

Illustrative, and not tax advice — the fifteen-of-twenty test is stated as the general rule, and a client’s own position turns on facts we do not see. Specialist tax advice must be in place before execution; we will not proceed without confirmation that it is.

Which assets can go in

The illustrative holding above, split by situs.

£2,400kNon-UK situs£850kUK situs
Illustrative. The split is by situs, not by size or by where the client banks — which is why the assets are checked one at a time and why reinvestment inside the trust is checked on the same basis.
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Valeur
Non-UK situs — Eligible to be excluded property£2,400k
UK situs — Not eligible, whatever the settlor’s domicile£850k

Adéquation

Où Trust de biens exclus trouve sa place

Les cas auxquels il répond, ceux auxquels il ne répond pas, et ce qu'un souscripteur demande avant de tarifer.

C'est la bonne réponse lorsque

  • A non-domiciled client who has not yet become deemed domiciled.
  • Non-UK situs assets, identified and checked individually.
  • Cases where specialist tax advice is already in place.

Il faut regarder ailleurs lorsque

  • A client who is already deemed domiciled — the structure is not available retrospectively.
  • UK situs assets, which cannot be excluded property.
  • Any case without specialist tax advice; we will not execute one.

Ce qu'il nous faut pour tarifer

  1. 1.Written confirmation of domicile status from the client’s tax adviser.
  2. 2.The UK residence history, tax year by tax year.
  3. 3.A schedule of the assets to be settled, with the situs of each.
Les falaises de Moher vues du ciel au coucher du soleil, le sentier de crête menant à la tour O’Brien
Falaises de Moher, comté de Clare
Des maisons géorgiennes le long de la Liffey à l’heure dorée, le pont Ha’penny franchissant le fleuve au-delà
Les quais nord, Dublin

Questions

Ce que les courtiers nous demandent sur ce produit

Can the trust be settled after deemed domicile arises?

It can be settled, but it will not be an excluded property trust. The status depends on the settlor’s domicile at the date of the settlement, and that date cannot be moved afterwards.

What if the trust later acquires a UK asset?

That asset is not excluded property. Situs discipline applies for the life of the trust, not only on the day it is written, which is why reinvestments are checked.

Why do you insist on specialist advice?

Because the whole structure turns on facts about the client that only their own advisers can establish, and because a mistake here is not correctable later. It is a condition of execution rather than a suggestion.

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