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Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 19 Oct 2010
Topics: Tax effective giving | Major donors

The government has abandoned a working group to investigate the potential to lifetime legacies, but sector groups are pressing ahead with a proposal for the Treasury to consider their introduction.

The working group, set up by the Charities Aid Foundation and HM Treasury in autumn 2008, had only met infrequently and with limited results before the change of government. But momentu"