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A campaigning "patriotic millionaire" has urged the Liberal Democrats to get behind a new wealth tax, as the party debates how to position itself on the economy. Mark Robinson, who joked to activists he was the "most left-wing man in commercial real estate", welcomed the party's call this week for a windfall tax on big banks. But he argued the projected 7bn a year raised under the policy was a "drop in the ocean" compared to "properly" implemented taxes on wealth.
With the public sector spending an estimated £5 billion a year on food, the pledge was billed as a potential multi-billion-pound lifeline for farmers. However, data obtained by the Countryside Alliance shows that only two government departments currently source a majority of their food from Britain: the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (80%) and the Department of Health and Social Care (72%).
"Inheritance tax is the most resented tax we encounter - and for good reason. It's viewed as a double taxation on assets that have already been earned, saved, and taxed over a lifetime."
Over the past three years, families have made more than 18,000 claims for overpaid inheritance tax (IHT), with property sales contributing significantly to these claims.
