Rejected petition Stop Probate charge increases

After April 2019, relatives inheriting estates worth more than £300,000 face a new probate stealth tax effectively increasing inheritance tax by the back door without the sanction of Parliament,

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Families across the UK face having to pay extra probate charges of up to £6,000 instead of the current fixed fee of up to £215. This is a backdoor way of extracting more money from even small estates of the deceased on top of inheritance tax. The fees will have to be paid in advance even though the potential beneficiaries may have no money to pay them causing distress and hardship to grieving relatives already facing having to borrow for the already extremely high death duties also payable plus interest long before inheritance may be received. As well as this the higher charges are payable twice where couples are involved to a maximum of £12,000 which may bew more than or a significant propertion of any inherited benefit.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/232192

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Date submitted 5 December 2018
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