BBC News: Paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, JMW Turner and Peter Paul Rubens have been donated to the nation in lieu of tax after the deaths of their owners. Fifty-one items of "major cultural significance" worth a total of £40m were offered in place of £25m of inheritance tax between 2010 and 2012.
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