Question follow-through · 88504

Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to communicate the implications of inheritance tax reforms to business and agricultural property relief to family business owners.

answeredTreasury

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Treasury
Tabled
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
11 Nov 2025
Answer
17 Nov 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 5 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to communicate the implications of inheritance tax reforms to business and agricultural property relief to family business owners.

  2. 11 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    As announced at Autumn Budget 2024, the government will reform Inheritance Tax agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026. The government has published several documents setting out further detail on how these changes will...

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