Question follow-through · 65140
Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes to (a) Business Property Relief and (b) Agricultural Property Relief on business (i) closures and (ii) divestment.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes to (a) Business Property Relief and (b) Agricultural Property Relief on business (i) closures and (ii) divestment.
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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