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Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

Commons · Question 70960 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 8 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, if she will consider the effectiveness of the Family Farm Tax policy.

Answer

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 8 Sep 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...