They closed tax loopholes used by non-doms, private equity bosses, wealthy landowners and private schools. They've broadened the inheritance tax base. They raised capital gains tax, the windfall tax on the oil and gas giants, the levy on private jets and increased taxes on wealthy overseas buyers.
Non doms were famously exempted from tax rises because their lobbying worked (unlike, say, freezing pensioners).
The landed gentry have their own tax loophole which was conspicuously NOT removed, IHT for farmers being a hit on much smaller food producers, does nothing to stop land banking or...
...corporate land purchase. Still subsidise fossil fuel corps, trying to increase production & also the fossil fuel induced (and completely insane) 22,000 million 'CCS' scheme, build more runways... What an utterly disingenuous pile of claptrap, You may be a Panglossian, but in the real world...
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The landed gentry have their own tax loophole which was conspicuously NOT removed, IHT for farmers being a hit on much smaller food producers, does nothing to stop land banking or...
They are tweaking the Temporary Repatriation Facility.
A few hundred landowners (many of whom are tax avoiders) are not small food producers.
Believe what you like, we are under no obligation to take your rubbish seriously...
Not only land, but also 'heritage buildings' & art...
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/oct/29/loophole-exempts-landowners-england-inheritance-tax-data-shows