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 ...

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Farmers from north-east England and Cumbria have described the government's decision to raise the proposed threshold for taxing inherited farmland as "a relief" and "a step in the right direction". At ...

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