M&S calls for rethink on inheritance tax amid government reshuffle

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M&S have called on new environment secretary Emma Reynolds to back British farmers by rethinking proposed changes to inheritance tax relief for farmers.

The decision to end a decades-old inheritance tax relief – known as Agricultural Property Relief – that allowed farmland to be transferred down a generation tax-free has sparked a serious backlash in Britain.

“We support our farmers’ calls on the government to do more to support farming, and that includes supporting their call for a rethink on inheritance tax,” Alex Freudmann, managing director of M&S Food, told The Times.

M&S has supported pleas by the National Farmers’ Union to extend a consultation into proposed reforms to agricultur