Gordon Brown relentless in taxing middle England

Dear Editor, Reading about recent house price trends on www.rightmove.co.uk that shows April prices 15% higher than a year ago emphasises just how disingenuous Gordon Brown was in his recent Budget statement when he suggested that by 2010-11 only 6% of estates will incur inheritance tax. A Treasury spokesperson made it clear last summer (August 2006) that currently (almost a year ago) only 6% of estates suffered IHT. There are more holes in Brown's assertions than a colander. Let me outline just three of them: He is assuming that recent HMRC records of 6% remains accurate and will conti...