Catalogue description Board of Inland Revenue: Estate Duty Office: Board Papers

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Details of IR 62
Reference: IR 62
Title: Board of Inland Revenue: Estate Duty Office: Board Papers
Description:

These records contain a selection of Estate Duty Office Board papers from 1899 arising from the administration of the various death duties. They include precedent files, case files raising important points of principle and claims for exemption from or postponement of estate duty. Also included are case files where exemption or postponement of estate duty was claimed for articles (such as paintings, books, manuscripts and other works of art) adjudged by the Treasury to be of national, scientific or historic interest.

Date: 1869-1999
Arrangement:

The files are arranged in strict file number order under the references and headings given to them by the department.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Inland Revenue, Estate Duty Office, 1899-1977

Physical description: 2706 file(s)
Restrictions on use: Pieces 1- 1050 require 3 working days notice to produce
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1977 Board of Inland Revenue

Accruals: Series is accruing

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