Brewin Dolphin Poll Finds 2/3 of Scots Have No Will

Published

14th December 2011

Brewin Dolphin, one of the UK's largest private client investment managers, has commissioned research on writing a will - a daunting prospect for many.

The poll, conducted by ICM, found that 65% of people in Scotland still do not have a Will and this number endorses the research recently carried out by HSBC, which found that two thirds of UK parents do not have a Will.

The poll also found that only 20% of Scots who have a will or are planning to make one, will leave a proportion, typically around 6% of their estate, to charity.

However after the Chancellor announced in his last budget that from April 2012 anyone donating at least 10% of their estate to charity that a 10% lower rate of IHT would be applied to the remainder of their estate

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