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Reform has ruled out abolishing inheritance tax and branded the Tories 'out of touch' for considering it.
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Robert Jenrick, Reform's pick for Chancellor, admitted the 40 per cent levy on deceased people's estates is 'unfair' and 'very unpopular' but said it 'doesn't raise very much money'.
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it → admit → money
He said Reform would not match a plan being considered by the Tories to scrap it, calling it 'morally wrong' to prioritise cutting taxes for the 'super-rich' in a cost-of-living crisis.
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As revealed by The Mail on Sunday, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch may unveil the major policy of abolishing inheritance tax at the party's annual conference next month.
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It would echo a similar pledge by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne in 2007 which was credited with deterring Prime Minister Gordon Brown from calling a snap election.
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Conservative sources insist the tax cut is still under discussion and will only be confirmed if it can be fully costed.
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Shadow Foreign Secretary Tom Tugendhat said: 'Kemi's not going to be announcing anything until conference.'
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A party spokesman added: 'Kemi has made no secret of her desire to cut taxes, singling out inheritance tax as one of those she wants to cut in a speech last week.
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But Mr Jenrick said he would not scrap inheritance tax, which is only paid by about 30,000 estates worth more than £325,000.
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Robert Jenrick said Reform would not match a plan being considered by the Tories to abolish inheritance tax
He told Sky News: 'I find it as unfair as the next person.
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It doesn't raise very much but causes a huge amount of damage to family farms and businesses.
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But he said there would be a 'big divide in British politics' if Mrs Badenoch focuses on cutting taxes for a small number of people, while Reform instead vows to increase the personal allowance so that workers earning less than £15,000 and pensioners are spared paying income tax.
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'That's the big difference,' he said.
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'If you ask are we in hock to wealthy people? No, absolutely not, because we're not reducing taxes for the super-rich, for big businesses, for Belgravia.
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We are on the side of working people.
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Told scrapping inheritance tax would be a popular policy, he insisted: 'I think it's very out of touch, actually.
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And also it's not going to happen.'
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He highlighted Mr Osborne's pledge, which was never implemented, adding: 'We've heard this before, but it's a big divide now in British politics.
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He added: 'I thought that it would be morally wrong as Chancellor, in a time of such straitened circumstances, to privilege a small number of households over the lowest income people in our country.'
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In a separate interview with GB News, Mr Jenrick was asked if he was ruling out cutting inheritance tax if he became Chancellor and replied: 'I am.
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But he added: 'I mean, if there was a chance to do it at some point in the future, maybe.
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But it's not my priority because we are on the side of working people.'
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A Reform source said: 'We’d like to get rid of inheritance tax but our first priority is to raise the tax-free personal allowance.
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That’s a much bigger tax cut that helps 40 million people.'
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Mr Jenrick said on Monday: 'The Tories promised to abolish inheritance tax before, but levied £84billion from grieving families.
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They’re set to promise it again in a desperate attempt to stop an early election in which they’d be wiped out in most of the country.
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Nobody’s buying it anymore.'
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