Wealth Tax Act, 1975

Exclusions from net market value.

13.—For the purposes of the assessment of tax, there shall be excluded from the net market value of the property comprised in the taxable wealth of an individual on a valuation date—

(a) in the case of an individual whose wife is living with him on that date, a sum of £100,000,

(b) in the case of an individual who is a widower or widow on that date and whose spouse had been living with that individual immediately before the death of that spouse, a sum of £90,000, and

(c) in the case of an individual other than—

(i) an individual to whom paragraph (a) or (b) applies,

(ii) a married woman living with her husband, or

(iii) a minor child to whom the proviso to this section applies,

a sum of £70,000:

Provided that there shall also be so excluded a sum of £2,500 in respect of each minor child where the property, if any, of such minor child falls to be included in the taxable wealth of that individual under section 4.