Finance Act, 1955

Certificate—prospective amount of estate duty.

11.—Where—

(a) the trustees of a settlement may become accountable for estate duty payable by virtue of section 30 of the Finance Act, 1941 (No. 14 of 1941), in respect of any property, and

(b) it is intended that the property or any part thereof shall cease to be comprised in the settlement,

then, if the trustees obtain from the Revenue Commissioners a certificate of the amount which in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners may properly be treated as the prospective amount of the duty, and give the Revenue Commissioners all the information and evidence required by the Revenue Commissioners in connection with the application for the certificate, no person shall be accountable as trustee of the settlement, for the duty to which the certificate relates, to an amount in excess of the amount certified.