Philip Kirkpatrick: "I think there will be a lot more land coming to the market"

Farmers and rural businesses are rightly up in arms following the Budget, in which valuable Inheritance Tax reliefs for agricultural and business assets were decimated

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But there are practical steps which people can take to try and mitigate the effect of the changes. There is no getting away from the fact that these are huge changes, which are going to cause a lot...

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