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EXCLUSIVE - Caroline Voaden: "If we undermine British farming, we undermine our ability to feed the nation"

South Devon MP Caroline Voaden writes on why the Government's recent uplift to Inheritance Tax thresholds still fails to scratch the surface for family farms

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Liberal Democrat MP Caroline Voaden said: "I am worried that in areas where land prices are particularly high, such as in the South Hams, the new 拢2.5m threshold will still prove too low. Why should one family be penalised because a brother and sister own a farm compared with another where it is a husband and wife?"
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Liberal Democrat MP Caroline Voaden said: "I am worried that in areas where land prices are particularly high, such as in the South Hams, the new 拢2.5m threshold will still prove too low. Why should one family be penalised because a brother and sister own a farm compared with another where it is a husband and wife?"

It was an early Christmas gift when the Government finally amended its family farm tax. It is only a shame the gift did not arrive the Christmas before, a few weeks after the Chancellor announced the...

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