Flat £273 fee for probate to avert a £6k 'death tax'

Flat £273 fee for probate to avert a £6k 'death tax'
Flat £273 fee for probate to avert a £6k 'death tax'
Flat £273 fee for probate to avert a £6k 'death tax': Plan for a levy that would hit grieving families with huge bills gets replaced with proposals for flat payment Probate charges to jump after proposal for controversial 'death tax' is dropped Ministers say higher charges are needed because system currently runs at a loss Estates valued at £5,000 or less will continue to be exempt from the new fee 

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Plans for a ‘death tax’ that would have hit grieving families with bills of up to £6,000 have been replaced with proposals for a flat fee.

Probate charges for individual executors will increase from current fees of £215 to £273, a 27 per cent jump.

Professional users of the probate system, such as solicitors, will see fees rise 76 per cent from £155 to the new flat rate.

It comes after the Government dropped controversial plans that would have seen 280,000 families a year pay on a ‘sliding scale’ tied to the value of the deceased’s estate.

Probate charges for individual executors will increase from current fees of £215 to £273, a 27 per cent jump [File photo]

The Daily Mail highlighted at the time how it would have left 56,000 families facing bills of

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