{"id":40712,"date":"2025-04-22T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40712\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:28:11","slug":"inheritance-tax-reform-has-potential-to-seriously-damage-family-farm-business-model-ni-secretary-benn-is-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40712\/","title":{"rendered":"Inheritance tax reform \u2018has potential to seriously damage\u2019 family farm business model, NI Secretary Benn is told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From left: Lakeland Dairies' head of site operations Peter McIlwaine with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn MP and Lakeland Dairies' quality manager Teresa Lagan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/62f6bfd6-79dd-481d-a72d-6026b5a71a08.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">From left: Lakeland Dairies&#8217; head of site operations Peter McIlwaine with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn MP and Lakeland Dairies&#8217; quality manager Teresa Lagan<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A major cross-border dairy co-op has warned that reforms to inheritance tax (IHT) will \u201cseriously damage\u201d the business model of family farms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Lakeland Dairies, which is based in Monaghan and has operations north of the border, raised its concerns during a visit by NI Secretary Hilary Benn to its foodservice facility in Newtownards last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From left: Lakeland Dairies&#8217; head of site operations Peter McIlwaine with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,6853,778,23147,2499,16,15,23146],"class_list":{"0":"post-40712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-hilary-benn","11":"tag-margaret-canning","12":"tag-ni-protocol","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-windsor-framework"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114380911836121212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}