Rachel Reeves skewered over inheritance tax

Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax changes will put 125,000 jobs at risk, trade bodies warn
Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax changes will put 125,000 jobs at risk, chancellor warned - The Builders Merchants Federation has signed the Family Business UK open letter from 32 trade bodies representing 160,
How Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax changes could impact your family business
Most of the attention – and anger – since Rachel Reeves’ Budget announcement on inheritance tax (IHT) has focused on the impacts on farmers. But family business owners are facing identical changes to the IHT rules under the chancellor’s plans. It’s vital they start to plan accordingly.
Farmers 'building an army' to take on Rachel Reeves' brutal inheritance tax raid
More than 45,000 people took to London's streets last month to protest Rachel Reeves' budget - but farmers have now warned that number could balloon without a reversal of the policy.
‘I’m making Lympne Castle a tax haven before Rachel Reeves makes us poor’
It’s a grand vision that the 64-year-old owner of Lympne Castle has hatched in her attempt to prevent losing swathes of her £500m fortune to the Treasury in a very large tax bill. “The King isn’t political and I actually think he’s a very fair person. He doesn’t need the land, so won’t miss it.”
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I would support Rachel Reeves raising most taxes – but not this one
Reeves both increased the rate of employers’ national insurance (from 13.8 per cent to 15 per cent), and lowered the threshold at which employers pay it from £9,100 a year to £5,000. It increases the cost of employing staff – making it more expensive to hire lower-paid and part-time workers, who are disproportionately women.
Hiring plunges after Reeves’s record tax raid
Businesses are shedding jobs at the fastest pace in four years in the wake of Rachel Reeves’s record tax raid, as economists warned of the rising risk of recession. A closely-watched survey showed bosses are preparing for “worse to come” in the new year amid a “triple whammy of gloomy news” that has seen growth grind to a halt and price rises gather pace.
Reeves’s inheritance tax raid to cost more than it makes
Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid on family businesses and farms will backfire by costing the Treasury over £1bn more than it makes, economists have said.
Pensioner’s brutal letter to Rachel Reeves accuses Labour of ‘stealing retirement’
The consequences of the Chancellor's "dreadful" move to charge Inheritance Tax (IHT) on pension pots passed on after death ...
‘You’ve stolen my happy retirement’: the letter shaming Rachel Reeves
Pensioner who faces £1m tax bill on his savings urges the Chancellor to think again I’m a pensioner who is 70 in March. I’m ...
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U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves to delay second part of government pensions review
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has delayed a critical second phase of a government review into the pensions ...
The working population is being squeezed dry to pay for Rachel Reeves’s benefits state
Britain’s last half-decade is a tale of two countries. For the new leisure class, relieved from the burden of economic ...
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Economy shrinks in blow for Rachel Reeves
Another day, another piece of bad news for the chancellor. The economy shrank in October for the second month in a row.
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Rachel Reeves’s Budget is dramatically failing
Rarely in modern times has a budget unravelled so spectacularly as the first of the Labour Government unveiled in October. There have been controversial decisions before, such as Gordon Brown’s raid ...
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Once Labour's biggest star, Rachel Reeves now finds her stock plummeting
Rachel Reeves would still be the most impressive and influential figure in Starmer’s government. As it is, the shine had ...
French media giant’s shares slump after London float in embarrassment for Reeves
The spin-off forms part of a wider break-up of Vivendi, which is controlled by Vincent Bolloré, the French media mogul. The ...