TUC places pressure on Labour to show how Inheritance Tax changes will not affect small family farms

Jeremy Moody at the Central Association for Agricultural Valuers said more than 75,000 farmers could be impacted over the next 30 years as a result of changes proposed in the Autumn Budget

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TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: "The onus will be on the Government to demonstrate that this does not have the impact that some fear it will have."
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TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: "The onus will be on the Government to demonstrate that this does not have the impact that some fear it will have."

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has handed Sir Keir Starmer a 'hammer blow' by supporting British farmers in the fight to reverse the family farm tax. Paul Nowak, general secretary at the TUC, said...

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