Written questions

Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax

Commons · Question 58288 · Tabled 9 Jun 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 12 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Helen Morgan

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 33135 on Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax, what the evidential basis is that the alternative clawback mechanism to the proposed changes to agricultural propert

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 12 Jun 2025

The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...