{
  "id": 2319604,
  "title": "Families saved £1.28bn in inheritance tax last year by leaving money to charity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/families-saved-1-28bn-in-inheritance-tax-last-year-by-leaving-money",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-21T06:00:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Is Money",
    "slug": "this-is-money",
    "url": "https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/article-16063463/Families-inheritance-tax-charity.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Money left to charity is not liable for inheritance tax, and you can cut the overall rate from 40 per cent to 36 per cent if you give a big enough chunk of your estate to good causes.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}