Hello David. I can help you make sense of your estate — what's in it, who's interested in what, and how the rules might affect your family. Ask me anything in plain English. I'll always show you where my answer comes from.
Will my family pay inheritance tax when I die?
On your death, no. The second death is where tax could matter. Here's the honest picture using your figures:
Everything not given away goes to Margaret, and gifts between spouses are tax-free. The gifts that are not exempt come to about £43,350, well inside the £325,000 standard allowance. About 87% of that allowance and all of your £175,000 home allowance pass to Margaret.
The second death: the combined estate is about £2.14m, so the home allowance tapers. Leaving 10% of the taxable estate to charity lowers the rate on the rest from 40% to 36%. A tax adviser can model this. It is an illustrative estimate, not advice.
computed against INHERIT · E&W Tax · reviewed: StableHow does giving to charity make the rate lower?
It's a rule designed to encourage charitable giving. If you leave at least 10% of your taxable estate to a registered charity, the Inheritance Tax rate on everything else drops from 40% to 36%.
For your £60,000 taxable amount, a gift of about £6,000 to charity would qualify. The charity receives the gift, and the rate on the rest falls — so the cost to your family is smaller than the headline gift suggests.
computed against INHERIT · E&W Tax · reviewed: StableYour estate record
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Not right now, back to the home pageBuilt on INHERIT v2
This demo is built on INHERIT v2 — an open standard for describing an estate. We show you honestly which parts of this screen the standard can hold today, which are planned, and which are still gaps.
- Supported now0 entriesThe standard already has a place for this today.
- Supported now · shared core1 entriesSupported by the part of the standard shared across our brands.
- Planned1 entriesA change proposal covers this. Where we can check the standard’s own record, we show its status.
- Gap — needs planning0 entriesOn the screen, but no change proposal covers it yet. These still need planning.
- Not a standard concept0 entriesPage furniture, or something we decided the standard should not hold.
2 traced entries on this screen, from two overlapping traces
Each entry comes from either the screen’s feature list or the data the screen displays. The two traces overlap, so one feature can appear twice: these are entries, not a count of distinct features.
PlannedHeir collaboration and claim resolution
ICP-0061 Heir collaboration & asset-claim resolution
Supported now · shared core
companion.facilitator-threadShared core: shared-core#companion.facilitator-thread
The 29 change proposals this demo relies on
A change proposal (ICP) is a tracked request to extend the standard. These are the ones behind the “Planned” features across all 33 screens — and the few already adopted and built. Where the standard has a written proposal we show its status from the standard’s own record; where it does not, we say so rather than guess.
- ICP-0001 · TT-657 — Port v1 consumer-estate surface into v2 (retracted in the standard)
- ICP-0002 · TT-658 — IHT 36% reduced charity rate (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0006 · TT-663 — Marketplace & dealer model (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0007 · TT-664 — Valuation lifecycle enrichment (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0008 · TT-665 — Delegation, stewardship & marketplace integrity (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0013 · TT-672 — Condition grading (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0014 · TT-673 — Collector records bundle (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0015 · TT-674 — Legal-assurance model (pending in the standard)
- ICP-0016 · TT-681 — Professional engagement & marketplace data model (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0019 · TT-684 — Executor / personal-representative appointment & powers model (pending in the standard)
- ICP-0021 · TT-686 — Wishes, directives & plan-assessment primitives (pending in the standard)
- ICP-0022 · TT-1029 — Post-death estate-administration & will-lifecycle domain (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0024 · TT-1031 — Nomination / expression-of-wish — non-testamentary transfer route (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0026 · TT-1033 — Free-text→structured multi-entity extraction (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0027 · TT-1034 — Living-Monitoring change-event model (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0028 · TT-1040 — Couple / mirror-vs-mutual wills modelling (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0029 · TT-1954 — Insurance-cover model (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0030 · TT-1069 — Catalogue item-import adapter (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0033 · TT-1131 — Executor pre-death readiness facet (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0034 · TT-1132 — E&W IHT spouse exemption (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0044 · TT-1143 — Steward/authority-grant remuneration facet + paid-helper undue-influence safeguard (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0046 · TT-1144 — Multi-opinion / consensus valuation shape (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0047 · TT-1145 — Compute faith fixed-shares (approved in the standard)
- ICP-0052 · TT-1292 — Funeral & farewell domain (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0054 · TT-1174 — Asset-side external-registry enrichment (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0055 · TT-1175 — Asset enrichment facets: maker/external-id (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0061 · TT-687 — Heir collaboration & asset-claim resolution (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0062 · TT-688 — Collections & asset disposition (tracked; no written proposal yet)
- ICP-0070 · TT-969 — Steward / AuthorityBasis — who may act for whom, with what authority, scope and consent, and the legal-effect confirmation rule (tracked; no written proposal yet)
Checked against a pinned copy of the standard’s change-proposal register (73 proposals, standard at main@f63ca72e116d), and against the standard’s own record of what it has adopted (29 written proposals, 176 computed rules). Sample estate — demo data, no sign-up.