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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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In the final days of 2025, the government did the right thing. It listened to farmers and growers, it listened to its own Labour backbenchers, and it raised the threshold of Agricultural Property ...

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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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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