EXC: HMRC Hands Internal ‘Expert of the Year’ Award to Designer of Disastrous Farm Tax

Staggeringly HMRC has handed its annual internal “Expert of the Year” award to the staff member who helped design Reeves’ disastrous Farm Tax. You couldn’t make it up…

The taxman’s Head of Inheritance Tax Analysis James Mee today said he was “proud and humbled,” specifying the award was “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.[…] Read the rest