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Precatory trusts

Produced by a Tolley Trusts and Inheritance Tax expert
Trusts and Inheritance Tax
Guidance

Precatory trusts

Produced by a Tolley Trusts and Inheritance Tax expert
Trusts and Inheritance Tax
Guidance
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This guidance note explains what a ‘precatory trust’ is and what the inheritance tax, capital gains tax and other tax effects of leaving such a trust in a Will are.

Precatory trusts in Wills

A ‘precatory trust’ is when a testator makes an outright gift of property to a legatee, but also includes in the Will an unenforceable direction to the legatee to further dispose of the property in favour of others. Often the direction is expressed as a ‘wish’, ‘hope’, or ‘desire’. Since no imperative fiduciary duty falls on the legatee, as with a normal trust, the legatee is free to ignore what the testator has said and is under only a moral and unenforceable obligation to dispose of the property in accordance with the testator’s direction.

The most common form of precatory trust is one of the testator’s chattels, such as:

‘I give to Hazel Smith absolutely all of my personal chattels as defined in section 55(l)(x) of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 and without imposing any trust or binding obligation upon

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