Would anyone on this site, who knows more about gift tax laws, be able to help me with a question? I have a niece who moved to the UK some years ago and is now buying a flat over there. I want to send her some money as a gift to help with the purchase. But at the same time I don’t want to eat into her Irish inheritance tax allowance as a niece because I know that a more elderly relative plans to leave her a sum in her will that would take her over this once off threshold of €32,500.
Therefore I was thinking of a making her a small financial gift next week before Christmas, making her another gift in Jan 2021 and then a final gift in Jan 2022, all paid into her Irish bank account and all below €3,000 which keeps it within the Irish annual gift tax limit, as I don’t know if her long term home will be in Ireland or the UK.
However presumably if she moves this money into her UK bank to help with the property purchase, then it will become caught up in the UK gift tax laws, which I know nothing about. I have tried reading up on them online but I find it a bit confusing. The impression I get (and I may be wrong) is that if I gift her a sum of money (I don’t know what the limit is) and if I live for seven years after the gift is made, then this gift is tax free but if I die within next seven years then she needs to pay tax on it.
Does anyone know if this is correct (which means that I could pay her the gift as one lump sum)?
Should I just ignore the Irish gift thresholds, if dealing with an Irish citizen currently resident abroad, or does the fact that the money is coming from this country mean that some of the rules relating to Ireland still apply.
Because the gift may straddle two very different tax systems (and she could move back to Ireland and would need to declare previous gifts above €3,000) I’m slightly unclear as how to best help her. Any informed advice would be welcomed. Thanks in advance.
Therefore I was thinking of a making her a small financial gift next week before Christmas, making her another gift in Jan 2021 and then a final gift in Jan 2022, all paid into her Irish bank account and all below €3,000 which keeps it within the Irish annual gift tax limit, as I don’t know if her long term home will be in Ireland or the UK.
However presumably if she moves this money into her UK bank to help with the property purchase, then it will become caught up in the UK gift tax laws, which I know nothing about. I have tried reading up on them online but I find it a bit confusing. The impression I get (and I may be wrong) is that if I gift her a sum of money (I don’t know what the limit is) and if I live for seven years after the gift is made, then this gift is tax free but if I die within next seven years then she needs to pay tax on it.
Does anyone know if this is correct (which means that I could pay her the gift as one lump sum)?
Should I just ignore the Irish gift thresholds, if dealing with an Irish citizen currently resident abroad, or does the fact that the money is coming from this country mean that some of the rules relating to Ireland still apply.
Because the gift may straddle two very different tax systems (and she could move back to Ireland and would need to declare previous gifts above €3,000) I’m slightly unclear as how to best help her. Any informed advice would be welcomed. Thanks in advance.