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In a massive Christmas U-turn by Sir Keir Starmer, the government has announced a huge climbdown on inheritance tax on farmers. The tax relief on family farms handed down between families is to ...

LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Britain's government said on Tuesday it would scale back its plan to raise more tax from farmers, following months of protests since the introduction of an inheritance tax ...

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The government has announced a U-turn on its inheritance tax policy for farmers. On Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) confirmed it would be increasing the threshold ...

Ministers have caved in to pressure on the “family farms tax” by watering down the controversial policy so that only half as many farms will be affected. The agricultural sector has been furiously ...

A farmer whose father killed himself the day before the October 2024 budget after weeks of worrying about inheritance tax changes has said the government's climbdown will be "the best Christmas ...

The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. This tragedy, discovered on Dec. 14, 2025, is ...

NIBLEY, Cache County – Utahns are receiving messages and letters about unclaimed money from a deceased relative, or at the very least, someone who shares their last name. But it's an inheritance scam ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Nick Reiner is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, Hollywood actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner.

Federal prosecutors searching for assets to satisfy an $823,681 debt former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick owes taxpayers moved late Tuesday to seize money from life insurance companies, two months ...