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Maria Warne-Elston said the previous tax threshold would have resulted in her family selling the farm Farmers in Cornwall have said the government's climbdown on inheritance tax has not gone far ...

The Government will raise the inheritance tax relief threshold for farmers from £1 million to £2.5 million in a climbdown following months of protest. The change to the reforms initially unveiled at ...

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Rachel Reeves is facing fresh calls to scrap an inheritance tax raid that threatens to destroy family firms across Britain. In a humiliating climbdown just two days before Christmas, the Government ...

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Government proposals to tax inherited farmland have been watered down, with the planned threshold increasing from £1m to £2.5m. The climbdown follows months of protests by farmers and concern from ...