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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Sophie Wingate

Ministers raise inheritance tax threshold for farmers in climbdown after protests

The Government will raise the inheritance tax relief threshold for farmers from £1 million to £2.5 million in a climbdown following months of protest.

The change to the reforms initially unveiled at Labour’s first Budget last year comes after ministers “listened to concerns” of the farming community and businesses, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said on Tuesday.

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