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January 06, 2007
Clive Aslet: Uninformed
I had a go at Clive Aslet for his piece in The Telegraph this week. This one in The Times is not much better:
Meanwhile, according to the estate agents Strutt & Parker, half of the land sold across Britain is going to City buyers. It may be that they like the idea of being squires, or bringing up their children in the country. But they are not usually sentimental about money. Perhaps they have spotted something that, in an age of set-aside, the rest of us have missed.
Farmland is exempt from inheritance tax. You'd expect the Editor in Chief of Country Life to know that, wouldn't you?
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