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Quoted in FT regarding tax measures in Rachel reeves' budget, specifically various inheritance tax reliefs:

'Historic Houses, which represents more than 1,000 independently owned and operated houses, castles and gardens in the UK, said its members were in effect “rural small- and medium-sized enterprises” that were “often asset rich but cash poor”.'

If I was looking to secure sympathy over tax rises, stately home owners would not be my choice of example.

#taxes #wealth
#wealth #taxes
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Tbh I'm not really sure just how many historic houses we actually need - we seem to have a surfeit of them. Let them be pulled down and the land reallocated, whether it be for housing, common access or wind farms.
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
My upper-middle-class background leaves me appalled by your suggestion, but part of me thinks you could well be right. Our heritage is important, and teaches a lot about religious intolerance, the privilege of Norman descendants, the spoils of slavers, etc, but how evenly spread is such knowledge? Is preservation of history worth the resources it takes? I am as conflicted on this subject as I am about state funding of opera.
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