Tax relief and Christmas peak

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We gauge reaction to the u-turn on the inheritance tax hike on farms & business assets. Will Bain also reflects on a massive year for Birmingham's bins - following ongoing strike action from refuse workers in the city. And as almost 13 million shoppers try to bag a last minute gift for their loved ones, we head to one shopping centre in Liverpool.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello, Greg Jenner here, host of You're Dead to Me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
0:13.4	This Christmas, forget about socks. We've got the best present of all.
0:17.2	Dead people!
0:18.2	All that sounds like zombies. Sorry, it's not zombies. Let me start again.
0:21.8	In our new family-friendly podcast series, dead funny history, historical figures come back to life
0:26.8	but just long enough to argue with me, tell their life stories and sometimes get on my nerves.
0:31.8	You're dead to me.
0:32.8	Dead funny history.
0:34.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.9	Wake up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:40.5	Hello morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:42.8	It's Christmas!
0:45.8	Yeah, Sean doing his best noddy holder there. Coming up this morning, Christmas relief for many farm and family businesses this morning as well.
0:52.8	As the government rose back on planned changes to
0:54.9	inheritance tax. We'll hear what impact those changes could have. Also today an unwanted anniversary
1:00.8	in the Midlands as Birmingham's bin strikes hit one year and with seemingly no end in sight,
1:05.9	we'll hear from a business leader about the impact that's had on the city. And if you've
1:10.2	still got some Christmas shopping to do,
1:12.3	it seems you're far from alone.
1:14.4	It's just last minute.com, isn't it?
1:16.3	All rushing about, but I think we'll get there.
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