{"id":175084,"date":"2025-09-28T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175084\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:01:09","slug":"starmer-denies-putting-seven-acre-field-in-trust-to-avoid-inheritance-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175084\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer denies putting seven-acre field in trust to avoid inheritance tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> has denied putting a seven-acre field he bought into a trust, in a move which would have meant he did not pay inheritance tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister bought the land behind his parents\u2019 house in 1996 to use as a donkey sanctuary, so his mother and father could care for the animals.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times reported he gave the land to his parents through a structure which meant when they died, the field\u2019s value was excluded from their estate.<\/p>\n

When asked if he put the land into a trust on the BBC\u2019s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg<\/a> programme, Sir Keir replied: \u201cNo, I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI bought a field for my mum and my dad because they loved donkeys,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy mum was very ill and she couldn\u2019t move around anymore.<\/p>\n

\"PrimePrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was asked about the field on the BBC\u2019s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme (PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cShe, by the end of her life, had her leg amputated and she could barely communicate.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was very, very ill. She loved her donkeys and I wanted her to be able to see her donkeys.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a lawyer, I had quite a lot of money, I bought a field for \u00a320,000 at the back of their house.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018Here\u2019s your field. It\u2019s yours for as long as you may live.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Sir Keir later added: \u201cThe idea of setting up some complicated trust for a \u00a320,000 agricultural field which then housed four donkeys?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so my mum, she was able to \u2013 they had a little outhouse at the edge of the field \u2013 and she was able, in the end, to see the donkeys.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad built a little sort of porchway so he could wheel the wheelchair out so she could touch the donkeys. That\u2019s what it was for. I gave it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sir Keir has previously told the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards that he \u201cimmediately gifted the land\u201d to his parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I did not transfer the legal title \u2013 that remained with me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister sold the Oxted, Surrey<\/a>, plot in 2022, he told the commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-175084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}