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In a massive Christmas U-turn by Sir Keir Starmer, the government has announced a huge climbdown on inheritance tax on farmers. The tax relief on family farms handed down between families is to ...

LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Britain's government said on Tuesday it would scale back its plan to raise more tax from farmers, following months of protests since the introduction of an inheritance tax ...

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Ministers have caved in to pressure on the “family farms tax” by watering down the controversial policy so that only half as many farms will be affected. The agricultural sector has been furiously ...

Ministers have watered down plans for an inheritance tax increase for farmers, which sparked several protests in the capital last year. The government had initially proposed a 20% tax on inherited ...

The government has announced a climbdown on controversial plans to reduce inheritance tax relief on farms and businesses, raising the threshold at which businesses will be taxable from £1 million to ...

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A farmer whose father killed himself the day before the October 2024 budget after weeks of worrying about inheritance tax changes has said the government's climbdown will be "the best Christmas ...

Following a long-fought campaign by the NFU, the government has confirmed the threshold for inheritance tax changes due to come into force next April will be raised to £2.5 million. “We have spent the ...