Written Question·Treasury·UIN 70960

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 8 September 2025

Question

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

Dan Tomlinson

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...

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