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Since the Treasury's own guidance 'Managing Public Money' makes it clear that, for a levy to be a fee, it must be set to cover the costs of the service for which the fee is charged, it can hardly be surprised that the independent ONS and OBR functions treat the new probate charges as a tax, when they will generate far more than is needed to cover the Probate Office's functions.

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