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I find it surprising that Lucy Frazer QC doesn't know the difference between a fee and a tax.. Although I wrote to her explaining that a "fee" is a charge for a service provided and will reflect the time, effort and skill in providing that service,, and a "tax" is a levy on a document or transaction will usually vary with the value of the transaction, it was clear from her reply that she simply doesn't understand that difference, and that there was nothing wrong with raising a tax on service "A" (issuing a Grant of Representation) in order to subsidise service "B" (the Justice System generally). On this basis, why doesn't the Government charge a fee on Undertakers' invoices, of, say, 25% of the amount of the invoice, in order to subsidise Legal Aid? there would be just as much logic in that, as in this outrageous "Death Tax."