Tenant farmers left 'unprotected' by Treasury's IHT changes

Tenant Farmers Association chief executive George Dunn said the family farm businesses the Chancellor said she was trying to ‘protect' were now ‘completely unprotected'

Rachael Brown
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 Tenant farmers left 'unprotected' by Treasury's IHT changes

The Tenant Farmers Association said it had been ‘inundated' with members telling them that their landlords were saying they will have to sell the farm to raise the money to pay the tax which will be due...

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