Letters: Farming Matters on IHT "upsetting and annoying" but made "some very pertinent points"

FG readers respond to Andy Welford's views on Inheritance Tax in his Farming Matters column

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Letters: Farming Matters on IHT "upsetting and annoying" but made "some very pertinent points"

READ FIRST: Farming Matters: "The 'family farm tax' conjures up some image of a bucolic rural idyll which is being destroyed" Would it be such a bad thing? Having spoken to a few farmers about the...

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