Want to get a sense of how things are getting worse? According to property consultants Strutt & Parker, non-farmers were responsible for less than a third of farmland purchases in 2010... but this had risen to 56% by last year. /8
@StravaSupport@jirob@stravasupport - Why not answer here, rather than have everyone send individual messages, which if prove useful, will get pasted onto here?
It's timely to highlight the life & work of computer scientist Lynn Conway.
In the late 1960s, she transitioned from male to female and was sacked by IBM as a result. For some years, she went underground and, for the rest of her career, worked as a woman - herstory unknown.
@rcredondo@daemonsmatt MORDRED: Mother, Merlin is here.
MORGAINE: Yes, I can feel his presence.
MORDRED: He has a new countenance.
MORGAINE: He has worn many faces. Merlin, hear me.
Merlin wasn't 7
director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies @PJTheEconomist tells Times Radio:
"I’m afraid I have absolutely no sympathy with their arguments on inheritance tax and the impact on family farms and agriculture. This is special pleading by some extremely wealthy people. Very few farmers will be affected by this, for example....
there's no other country in Europe or hardly any others that completely exempt business assets and agricultural assets from inheritance tax. We never used to, didn't destroy family farms. I'm disappointed actually to see such special pleading given such prominence"
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I thought the idea of a pension with its tax privileges was to provide for someone in their retirement, not to be a tax planning tool for the wealthy to avoid IHT.