Submitted on Friday 17th March 2017
Published on Monday 27th March 2017
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
Signatures: 20
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Allow orphans to inherit from parents without being subject to inheritance tax.
Currently if you are a single parent and die leaving minor kids, they can only inherit up to £325,000 and anything more than that is taxed at 40%. In contrast, anything that you leave to a spouse/civil partner is inherited tax free, even if s/he is earning well and/or has sufficient own resources.
It seems fundamentally wrong that helpless, resourceless orphans are treated less well than bereaved spouses/partners. It is not the mark of a civilized society that the inheritance of a vulnerable, hapless orphan should be raided for tax. Such a situation also leads dying single parents to enter into contrived marriages or other schemes just to shelter the assets of the estate; and sometimes that situation can go drastically wrong. Surely the UKs orphans ought to be treated better!
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