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Principles of IHT valuation—overview
I8.201 IHT valuation in the open market
The general rule is that the value at any time of any property, for the purposes of IHT, is the price which the property might reasonably fetch if sold in the open market at that time, but the price is not to be reduced on the ground that if the whole of the property to be valued were placed on the market on the date of valuation the price would be depressed1.
The costs of sale are not taken into account2 — I8.203, I8.204.
In most respects the working of the general rule is effectively the same as that for estate duty3 and capital gains tax4 and the earlier case law relating to
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