Probate: Charitable Donations
(asked on 1st March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of increased probate fees on levels of charitable giving.
This question was answered on 11th March 2019
Fixed sum charitable donations will be unaffected by the increased probate fees; the changes will only affect those estates where the deceased has left an entire estate, or a percentage of their residuary estate to charity. No estate will ever pay more than 0.5% of its value in probate fees.