Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910

Amendment as to value of property.

60.(1) In the case of any person dying on or after the thirtieth day of April nineteen hundred and nine, the proviso to subsection (5) of section seven of the principal Act (which relates to the estimation of the principal value of property for the purposes of estate duty) shall cease to have effect.

(2) In estimating the principal value of any property under subsection (5) of section seven of the principal Act, in the case of any person dying on or after the thirtieth day of April nineteen hundred and nine, the Commissioners shall fix the price of the property according to the market price at the time of the death of the deceased, and shall not make any reduction in the estimate on account of the estimate being made on the assumption that the whole property is to be placed on the market at one and the same time:

Provided that where it is proved to the Commissioners that the value of the property has been depreciated by reason of the death of the deceased, the Commissioners in fixing the price shall take such depreciation into account.

(3) An appeal shall not lie under section ten of the principal Act, whether as originally enacted or as applied by any other enactment, where the question in dispute is a question of the value of any real (including leasehold) property, but, if any person is aggrieved by the decision of the Commissioners as to the value of any such property, he may appeal against the decision in manner prescribed by Part I. of this Act, and the provisions as to appeals under that Part of this Act shall apply accordingly.