{"id":331535,"date":"2025-12-23T12:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331535\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:57:07","slug":"uk-backpedals-on-inheritance-tax-after-farmer-backlash-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331535\/","title":{"rendered":"UK backpedals on inheritance tax after farmer backlash\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/inheritance-tax-reliefs-threshold-to-rise-to-25m-for-farmers-and-businesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said on Tuesday<\/a> that it changed tack after listening to concerns from the farming community and businesses about the reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have listened closely to farmers across the country, and we are making changes today to protect more ordinary family farms,\u201d said Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The government estimates only 185 farming estates will now fall into scope, down from 375, and 1,100 estates overall will pay more inheritance tax in 2026-27, down from an initial figure of 2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government said on Tuesday that it changed tack after listening to concerns from the farming community and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88904,4176,59,57,58,50,1445,474,1925,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-331535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-economic-governance","tag-finance","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-rachel-reeves","tag-tax","tag-taxonomy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}