Gift Tax Rates 2024. Any inheritance tax due on gifts is usually paid by the estate, unless you give away more than £325,000 in gifts in the 7 years before your death. Any amounts you give over the annual limit are applied to a lifetime exclusion, set at $12.92 million for tax year 2023.
Ordinary monetary and property gifts are unlikely to be impacted by this tax, since the yearly limit for 2024 is $18,000 per giver per recipient. The gift tax is a tax on the transfer of property by one individual to another while receiving nothing, or less than full value, in return.