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[SimonMac]

It won't though. Those who currently care about IHT are already voting and will always vote Tory. If the economy was ticking along then sure, the temporarily embarrassed millionaires would be all for it.

There are countless other taxes that could be cut that would actually get votes. Going into an election waving 'look IHT down, we are party of lowering tax!' is a wide open goal for Labour to just start reading off taxes that impact everyone, council tax, income tax etc.

Problem is those who are on the cusp on IHT, house prices taking them into the realm of the someone who might care about IHT and are exactly the type of people the Tories want to attract with a last throw of the dice before a GE

[eek]

No one understands IHT and how few people would actually be impacted by it.

hence, it’s an evil demon that a Tory government can use to put the fear of tax into people and fool them into voting Tory.

if Hunt and co really do abolish it then we will know they know they’ve lost the next election.

Abolishing IHT is far better used as an imaginary carrot to encourage you to vote Tory than a real implemented one.