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45. Accountable persons.

(1) The person accountable for the payment of tax is -

(a) the donee or successor, and

(b) in the case referred to in section 32(2), the transferee referred to in that subsection, to the extent referred to in that subsection.

(2) The tax shall be recoverable from the person referred to in subsection (1) and the personal representative of such person, where that person has died, on whom the Commissioners have served notice in writing of the assessment of tax in accordance with section 49(4).

(3) The person referred to in subsection (1) and the personal representative of such person shall, for the purposes of paying the tax, or raising the amount of the tax when already paid, have power, whether the property is or is not vested in that person, to raise the amount of such tax and any expenses properly paid or incurred by that person in respect of raising the amount of such tax, by the sale or mortgage of, or a terminable charge on, that property or any part of that property.

(4) Every pub

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