Finance Act, 1896

Estate duty on annuities.

16. The estate duty due in respect of any annuity or other definite annual sum, whether terminable or perpetual, referred to in section two (1) (d) of the principal Act, may, at the option of the person delivering the account, be paid by four equal yearly instalments, the first of which shall be due at the end of twelve months from the date of the death, and after the end of those twelve months interest on the unpaid portion of the duty shall be added to each instalment and paid accordingly, but the duty for the time being unpaid, with interest to the date of payment, may be paid at any time.