{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-tax-act-1984/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-tax-act-1984/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/51",
  "legislation_title": "Inheritance Tax Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-tax-act-1984",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Charge on transfers.",
  "text": "Inheritance tax shall be charged on the value transferred by a chargeable transfer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "See Finance Act 1986 s. 100(1)and (2)—for any liability to tax arising on and after 25July 1986any reference in the legislation to capital transfer tax has effect as a reference to inheritance tax."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/51/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:12.914001+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}