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Letters: "Together, we have helped protect the future of many family farms"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Tom Bradshaw, NFU president, discusses the successful campaign to change proposed Inheritance Tax rules affecting family farms

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After 14 months of relentless and persistent campaigning, common sense prevailed in Westminster over Inheritance Tax (IHT). Just two days before Christmas, the Government announced that the threshold...

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