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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 ...

U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of ...

Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fewer farmers will start paying inheritance tax from April after UK ministers were forced into a £130mn climbdown by a ...

The Labour government has announced a significant climbdown on its policy of inheritance tax for farmers following a major backlash. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) ...

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 ...

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