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The son of a farmer who took his own life the day before the October 2024 budget in anticipation of inheritance tax changes called the U-turn on the hated policy 'a well fought-for victory for our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. This tragedy, discovered on Dec. 14, 2025, is ...

NIBLEY, Cache County – Utahns are receiving messages and letters about unclaimed money from a deceased relative, or at the very least, someone who shares their last name. But it's an inheritance scam ...