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Efra Committee told Inheritance Tax changes are a tax on the 'unfortunate'

Howes Percival partner Stuart Maggs, said it was 鈥榙isingenuous' to suggest the only people impacted by this policy are the ones having to pay tax, highlighting many farmers who will spend 鈥榯housands if not tens of thousands' on legal fees in response to the policy change

Rachael Brown
clock 鈥� 2 min read
Efra Committee told Inheritance Tax changes are a tax on the 'unfortunate'

People who 鈥榙ie early, who cannot plan and who are unfortunate' will be the people caught up in the Inheritance Tax changes, according to Howes Percival partner Stuart Maggs, speaking in the first evidence...

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