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Death and taxes...
The owner of Britain's first long barrow tomb built in over 5,000 years has been hit with a £5,000 tax bill after officials ruled it was a storage unit.
Tim Daw has been told he must pay business rates for his burial mound where people pay to inter the ashes of their loved ones like they did in the Neolithic period.
Usually, church graveyards and burial grounds are exempt from the tax as they are seen as places or worship.
But Mr Daw has been told by the government's Valuation Agency that his long barrow is a commercial storage facility and he must pay the tax.
Pic: RogerArbon/BNPS
Death and taxes...
The owner of Britain's first long barrow tomb built in over 5,000 years has been hit with a £5,000 tax bill after officials ruled it was a storage unit.
Tim Daw has been told he must pay business rates for his burial mound where people pay to inter the ashes of their loved ones like they did in the Neolithic period.
Usually, church graveyards and burial grounds are exempt from the tax as they are seen as places or worship.
But Mr Daw has been told by the government's Valuation Agency that his long barrow is a commercial storage facility and he must pay the tax.
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