Tax Advisors + Probate & Estate Administration: The Challenge
As tax advisor, preparing bank statements for probate & estate administration is a common but time-consuming task. Executors and solicitors handling probate need to review the deceased's bank statements to value the estate, identify debts, and distribute assets.
How BankScan AI Helps Tax Advisors with Probate & Estate Administration
Batch-convert entire folders of bank statement PDFs into structured spreadsheets to speed up tax return preparation and HMRC enquiry responses. For probate & estate administration specifically, BankScan AI extracts Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits payable, regular inc automatically.
How Tax Advisors Handle Probate & Estate Administration
When preparing bank statements for probate & estate administration, tax advisors need to Tax advisors collect bank statements alongside P60s, dividend vouchers, and rental income records to prepare self-assessment returns. During HMRC enqu. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: self-assessment, HMRC enquiry, information notice, tax computation.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload Date of death statement plus 6-12 months prior to identify regular commitments, standing orders, and direct debits to cancel of statements for probate & estate administration.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits — formatted for tax advisors workflows.
Complete your probate & estate administration work
Download Excel files ready for probate & estate administration. Date-of-death balance clearly stated, recurring payments listed separately for cancellation, all accounts of the deceased consolidated into one estate summary
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Tax Advisors — Probate & Estate Administration
- Built for Tax Advisors — Saves 2-3 hours per complex self-assessment return during tax season, and up to 8 hours when responding to HMRC enquiries requiring multi-year statement analysis
- Software compatible — Output works directly with TaxCalc, Taxfiler, IRIS
- Built for Probate & Estate Administration — Convert the deceased's bank statements to Excel for fast estate valuation, identification of standing orders, direct debits, and outstanding payments.
- Key data extracted — Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits payable, regular income sources, any joint account contributions, gifts made in the 7 years before death
Compliance: Tax Advisors + Probate & Estate Administration
When tax advisors prepare bank statements for probate & estate administration, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Tax advisors must comply with HMRC's Agent Authorisation framework and Professional Conduct in Relation to Taxation (PCRT) guidelines. They have a duty to submit accurate returns and must retain supporting documentation including bank statements for the statutory record-keeping period.
- Legal basis: Administration of Estates Act 1925; Inheritance Tax Act 1984 sections 4 and 171; Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987
Probate & Estate Administration — Built for Tax Advisors
IHT400 must be submitted within 12 months of death to avoid interest charges; probate grant cannot be issued until HMRC receives the IHT forms
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