Private client law and tax, Fellow of Agricultural Law Association. All views personal and subject to change based on evidence.
With trepidation, here are my guesses for budget changes for 2025. None of this is advice, and any certainty is greatly reduced against previous years because so many kites have been flown that it's …
Laura Kuenssberg asked Keir Starmer about the land his parents put donkeys on.
The recent CenTax report proposed changes to the Government’s APR/BPR proposals to mitigate the impact on small family farms. In doing so they dismissed the clawback proposals that others, including…
The Treasury has completed what looks like the only Impact Assessment we will get on the Family Farm/Business Tax (changes to the inheritance tax agricultural and business property reliefs).
The History
A quick recap on the proposed changes to inheritance tax (IHT) for businesses, with broad generalisations.
Labour’s 2024 manifesto stated that Food Security is National Security. In light of that it is reasonable to expect that if actions are taken that damage Food Security, they are undertaken on the ba…
I have now listened to Steve Reed's speech. In summary he said: "I’m sorry you were shocked we put APR and BPR on farms when we had said we wouldn’t. I want farming to be sustainable, and so thr…
