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Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of farmers who will be impacted by changes to (a) Agriculture Property Relief and (b) Business Property Relief.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 20 May 2025
Target answer date: 22 May 2025
Answer: 29 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of farmers who will be impacted by changes to (a) Agriculture Property Relief and (b) Business Property Relief.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 May 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 businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...

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