…but it seems death isn’t even enough to free you from your tax burden. Never mind IHT, we’re talking council tax. The Daily Mail recently reported that a local council has been forced to apologise after sending council tax bills and court orders to 20 people who have passed away.

Insensitive, yes, although people generally accept the fallability of computerised administration systems these days. But there are boundaries of acceptability – some of the pursued had been dead for 10 years.