DoctorG

I could see the Tories proposing to raise the IHT agricultural threshold in 5 years time, but don't think they would abolish it completely. Surely one of Reeves key motivation for this was to control… (View Post)

Yes, much more down south. Dyson is the big one I'm aware of. I'm in Scotland, which is much more owner occupied. It seems virtually impossible for a farmer to buy neighbouring land in the south of E… (View Post)

It's going to be interesting what the big estates do. They've used trusts as one means to keep themselves intact, interesting that the Government hint at closing loopholes over the next few years. Bi… (View Post)

I think the shock is not that a limit on IHT relief has come in, but how low it is. Most decent land in England trades well over 11k/acre. There's also great disparity between the per acre price of l… (View Post)

I'm not clued up on the rates pre 1970, but will say a lot more farms were tenanted back then. Also land value has escalated drastically, particularly since the 1990s. Early/mid 90s you could get goo… (View Post)