Entire HMRC Inheritance Tax Analysis Team Is Fewer Than Five ‘Junior Officials’ – Guido Fawkes

REVEALED: Entire HMRC Inheritance Tax Analysis Team Is Fewer Than Five ‘Junior Officials’

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There was widespread outrage last week after Guido revealed that the HMRC official leading the taxman’s Inheritance Tax Analysis team was handed the ‘Expert of the Year’ Award “for my work in providing ministers with the analysis they needed to announce several major IHT reforms at last year’s Autumn Budget, including restricting agricultural and business property reliefs and extending IHT to unspent pensions.” Curiously James Mee’s LinkedIn post boasting about this has been edited and his account has been renamed James M…

Requests fired from Guido’s FoI unit have revealed that HMRC’s entire Inheritance Tax Analysis team is made up of “fewer than five junior officials.” In an agency of 66,000 staff…

Former Tory Treasury minister John Glen said “in every fiscal event I was exposed to this option was laid on the table – we said ‘No thank you.’” The civil servants itching to get it over the line…

It is no wonder that HMRC and the Treasury completely failed to co-ordinate with DEFRA, which has better data, in the execution of the policy. Which is hammering farming estates across the country at a greater magnitude than claimed by the taxman…