Question follow-through · 31521
Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what definition of family farm was used when developing changes to inheritance tax relief for (a) business and (b) agricultural assets.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what definition of family farm was used when developing changes to inheritance tax relief for (a) business and (b) agricultural assets.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and fixing the public finances in a fair way. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advantag...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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