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Jeremy Hunt facing Tory MP backlash over stealth inheritance tax raid

Chancellor set to freeze tax threshold for another two years in battle to fill £60bn blackhole in nation’s finances

Jeremy Hunt is facing a backlash from Tory MPs over his plans for a stealth inheritance tax raid on families.

The Chancellor is poised to freeze the threshold above which people must pay death duties for another two years.

He will announce the move in the Autumn Statement as part of moves to fill a £60 billion blackhole in the nation’s finances.

Inheritance tax receipts have more than doubled in just over a decade from £2.3 billion in 2009 to £6 billion last year.

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