IHT reform 'front loaded' on the 'very elderly, the widowed, the terminally ill and the deeply unlucky'

Speaking on Farmers Guardian webinar, fifth-generation mixed farmer Clare Wise Chapman said: "I cannot plan my way out of this and it is not for want of trying"

Rachael Brown
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IHT reform 'front loaded' on the 'very elderly, the widowed, the terminally ill and the deeply unlucky'

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement, was never going to be a tax statement, although it could have been if she had felt the urge for it to have been. But the fallout and uncertainty from...

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