Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
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Farmers protest in central London over tax changes

China Daily  

By JULIAN SHEA in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-11-20 11:11 Farmers drive tractors through Westminster, central London on Tuesday during a demonstration against a policy of the United Kingdom's Labour Party government that is expected to increase inheritance tax for some farmers. REUTERS Farmers descended on central London on Tuesday to protest about recent changes to inheritance tax rules, which they say could leave them with large tax bills that could force them to sell off land, potentially threatening national food security. Stabilizing public services, he told the BBC, must be done "in a way that's fair and proportionate … it's only right to ask the very wealthiest farmers and those wealthy individuals who have been buying up agricultural land to avoid their own inheritance tax liability to pay their fair share". Victoria Vyvyan, president of the Country Land and Business Association, said the new rules "could harm 70,000 United Kingdom farms, damaging family businesses and destabilizing food security", but that is the total number of farms of sufficient value ever to qualify for it.

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Starmer and farmers locked in deadlock over tax changes after hundreds of tractors descend on Westminster
1 week, 5 days ago

Starmer and farmers locked in deadlock over tax changes after hundreds of tractors descend on Westminster

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Farmer's daughter Millie Goodwin, 18, stands on a tractor lined …

Farm tax changes under fire in Parliament as angry farmers protest outside
1 week, 5 days ago

Farm tax changes under fire in Parliament as angry farmers protest outside

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Obviously, the idea is that we want to pass it down to the next generation, but farmers are asset-rich, …

Watch: Starmer faces PMQs as tractors take over Westminster in farmers’ protest
1 week, 5 days ago

Watch: Starmer faces PMQs as tractors take over Westminster in farmers’ protest

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Watch as Sir Keir Starmer faced Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, …

Farmers set for tractor protest as Government says its support is ‘steadfast’
1 week, 5 days ago

Farmers set for tractor protest as Government says its support is ‘steadfast’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The “RIP British Farming” protest has been organised by Kent Fairness for Farmers and Save British Farming in response …

Opposition growing to family farm tax ahead of major protest in London
2 weeks ago

Opposition growing to family farm tax ahead of major protest in London

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Opposition to Rachel Reeves’ family farm tax raid is growing ahead …

Farmers will fight 'for as long as it takes' to halt Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax raid, union president warns
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Farmers will fight 'for as long as it takes' to halt Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax raid, union president warns

Daily Mail  

Farmers will fight ‘for as long as it takes’ to halt Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax raid, the president of the National Farmers’ Union warns today. Writing in the Mail as MPs prepare to debate the ‘family farm tax’ in the Commons this afternoon, Tom Bradshaw says farmers will not ‘let this go’. The Chancellor’s reforms to inheritance tax relief will …

Farmers make fresh stand against Keir Starmer's tax grab: More than 100 tractors descend on Dover in protest against inheritance tax raid
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Farmers make fresh stand against Keir Starmer's tax grab: More than 100 tractors descend on Dover in protest against inheritance tax raid

Daily Mail  

Over 100 tractors have rumbled through Dover today as farmers launched a fresh protest against Keir Starmer's inheritance tax grab. Over 100 tractors have rumbled through the English countryside on the way to Dover as farmers have launched a fresh protest against Keir Starmer 's inheritance tax grab Farmers adorned their tractors with placards to show their anger at the …

Why farmers are fretting across the world
1 month ago

Why farmers are fretting across the world

Hindustan Times  

They come in long convoys of tractors, sometimes with months of food supplies with them, to stage protests. In London, hundreds of farmers stormed Britain’s heart of government, Whitehall, this week, protesting a proposed 20% inheritance tax they say will be a stab in their backs. Studies have shown that Indian farmers are “net taxed” or implicitly taxed due to …

Independent readers left divided over Labour’s ‘tractor tax’ on inherited farms
1 month ago

Independent readers left divided over Labour’s ‘tractor tax’ on inherited farms

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Labour’s proposed inheritance tax reforms have sparked intense debate among Independent …

Farmers should shut up and muck in – for the greater good
1 month ago

Farmers should shut up and muck in – for the greater good

The Independent  

We oldies have accepted the loss of our winter fuel payments for the greater good – to fund the NHS, schools, etc. They would do well to accept paying inheritance tax with good grace, and as a contribution to the public services we all enjoy and would like to see improved. Lindsay Mayor Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Labour should get off …

Labour is losing the PR battle over the ‘tractor tax’
1 month ago

Labour is losing the PR battle over the ‘tractor tax’

The Independent  

Who will decide who wins the fight between the government and the farmers? More in Common found that 57 per cent of people support making farmers exempt from inheritance tax, including 45 per cent of Labour voters. There is instinctive public support for being able to pass on assets to your children; inheritance tax is the most hated tax, even …

BBC's Victoria Derbyshire clashes with Labour minister as he urges farmers to 'find out how inheritance tax works' if they are 'anxious' about budget
1 month ago

BBC's Victoria Derbyshire clashes with Labour minister as he urges farmers to 'find out how inheritance tax works' if they are 'anxious' about budget

Daily Mail  

A Labour minister has been accused of being 'patronising' by BBC presenter Victoria Derbyshire after telling farmers anxious about the so-called 'tractor tax' they should find out how it works. Victoria Derbyshire, presenter of BBC2's Newsnight, accused Labour minister James Murray of being 'patronising' after he urged farmers to find out how inheritance tax works He was speaking on the …

NFU chief hints farmers could take more extreme action if government ignores inheritance tax protest
1 month ago

NFU chief hints farmers could take more extreme action if government ignores inheritance tax protest

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Asked what he thinks farmers’ next steps will be, following Tuesday’s demonstration, Tom Bradshaw said: …

Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
Top News
1 month ago

Farmers protest in central London over tax changes

China Daily  

By JULIAN SHEA in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-11-20 11:11 Farmers drive tractors through Westminster, central London on Tuesday during a demonstration against a policy of the United Kingdom's Labour Party government that is expected to increase inheritance tax for some farmers. REUTERS Farmers descended on central London on Tuesday to protest about recent changes to inheritance …

Why have British farmers marched on UK’s Parliament?
1 month ago

Why have British farmers marched on UK’s Parliament?

Al Jazeera  

British farmers say they will be forced to sell farms under inheritance tax reforms. Among the reforms announced by UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves in last month’s budget were plans to make inheritance tax payable on farms worth more than 1 million pounds. Under the 1992 Agricultural Property Relief scheme, farms had previously been exempt from paying any …

Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
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1 month ago

Farmers protest in central London over tax changes

China Daily  

Farmers drive tractors through Westminster, central London on Tuesday during a demonstration against a policy of the United Kingdom's Labour Party government that is expected to increase inheritance tax for some farmers. REUTERS Farmers descended on central London on Tuesday to protest about recent changes to inheritance tax rules, which they say could leave them with large tax bills that …

Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
1 month ago

Farmers protest in central London over tax changes

China Daily  

Farmers drive tractors through Westminster, central London on Tuesday during a demonstration against a policy of the United Kingdom's Labour Party government that is expected to increase inheritance tax for some farmers. REUTERS Farmers descended on central London on Tuesday to protest about recent changes to inheritance tax rules, which they say could leave them with large tax bills that …

The real threat to British farmers… and it isn’t the ‘tractor tax’
1 month ago

The real threat to British farmers… and it isn’t the ‘tractor tax’

The Independent  

I am dismayed by the protesting farmers’ sense of entitlement and pleading for special treatment. The London protest against the “tractor tax” is one funded by obscenely wealthy people who don’t want to pay any tax at all. Even after Labour’s changes, the tax due on a £3m house inherited from your parents would be £800,000, whereas tax on a …

More farmers seeking financial advice over inheritance tax changes, say experts
1 month ago

More farmers seeking financial advice over inheritance tax changes, say experts

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Restrictions on agricultural property relief are particularly challenging for …

London: Farmers protest against inheritance tax
1 month ago

London: Farmers protest against inheritance tax

Op India  

On the 19th of November, thousands of farmers in Britain are set to demonstrate in Parliament Square in London against the removal of an inheritance tax exemption that has aided farmers to bequeath their farmlands to the next generations, alleging that this decision will jeopardise food production. Agricultural Property Relief from Inheritance Tax and the Labour Party’s “Tractor Tax” Flags, …

UK farmers rally to oppose government's inheritance tax reforms
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1 month ago

UK farmers rally to oppose government's inheritance tax reforms

Hindustan Times  

British farmers called on the government on Tuesday to revoke a contentious proposal to alter inheritance tax laws for land ownership, threatening to jam the streets of London. Farmers drive their tractors past the Houses of Parliament during a protest against issues including substandard food imports, in London, UK, on Monday, In the past, farming enterprises were eligible for a …

Do you support the ‘tractor tax’ on inherited farms? Join The Independent Debate
1 month ago

Do you support the ‘tractor tax’ on inherited farms? Join The Independent Debate

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The government’s announcement of changes to inheritance tax, which will see …

UK farmers plan to protest at Parliament over a tax hike they say will ruin family farms
1 month ago

UK farmers plan to protest at Parliament over a tax hike they say will ruin family farms

Deccan Chronicle  

LONDON: With banners, bullhorns, toy tractors and an angry message, British farmers are descending on Parliament on Tuesday to protest a hike in inheritance tax that they say will deal a “hammer blow” to struggling family farms. That is half the 40% inheritance tax rate levied on other land and property in the U.K. Starmer’s center-left government says the “vast …

UK farmers plan to protest at Parliament over a tax hike they say will ruin family farms
1 month ago

UK farmers plan to protest at Parliament over a tax hike they say will ruin family farms

The Independent  

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Ailbhe Rea: Farmers Descend on Westminster
1 month ago

Ailbhe Rea: Farmers Descend on Westminster

Bloomberg  

We’ve had an influx of muddy wellies and flat caps in parliament today as farmers protest against the changes to inheritance tax announced in last month’s budget. They marched on Whitehall, tractor horns wailing and accompanied by famous faces including Jeremy Clarkson and Andrew Lloyd-Webber, before descending on parliament to personally lobby MPs against the plan to levy inheritance tax …

British farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’ on inheritance
1 month ago

British farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’ on inheritance

Al Jazeera  

Farmers say the tax will destroy family farms and threaten food production, while the gov’t says it’s needed to raise funds. British farmers have descended on London to call on the government to scrap inheritance tax rules on land ownership, which they say will destroy family-run farms. The measure, referred to by critics as the “tractor tax”, was announced last …

Labour peer says Keir Starmer's inheritance tax raid on family farms 'smells of incompetence' and is hammering the party's rural support as ministers brace for London protest
1 month ago

Labour peer says Keir Starmer's inheritance tax raid on family farms 'smells of incompetence' and is hammering the party's rural support as ministers brace for London protest

Daily Mail  

Keir Starmer's inheritance tax raid on farmers 'smells of incompetence' and is hammering the party's support in rural areas, a Labour peer has warned. Speaking to reporters on the way to the G20 summit in Brazil, Sir Keir said 'it is very important that we support farmers' but added: 'Obviously, there's an issue around inheritance tax and I do understand …

Why are the farmers ploughing ahead with a major protest next week?
1 month, 1 week ago

Why are the farmers ploughing ahead with a major protest next week?

The Independent  

Not so very long ago, agricultural property relief from inheritance tax was one of the more obscure corners of the UK tax code. They’ve had to contend with the transition from the EU Common Agricultural Policy to a domestic system; bullying by the big supermarkets; labour shortages; rocketing energy bills; environmental obligations; increases in the minimum wage and employers’ national …

Government confusion over how many farms will be hit by controversial tractor tax
1 month, 1 week ago

Government confusion over how many farms will be hit by controversial tractor tax

The Independent  

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Farmers’ ‘tractor tax’ protest move to new location because Trafalgar Square is not big enough
1 month, 1 week ago

Farmers’ ‘tractor tax’ protest move to new location because Trafalgar Square is not big enough

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The gathering of people from farming communities around the country is a response to chancellor …

Militant farmers to stage a 'national strike' against Rachel Reeves' inheritance tax raids - with meat and crops set to be withheld from supermarkets
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1 month, 1 week ago

Militant farmers to stage a 'national strike' against Rachel Reeves' inheritance tax raids - with meat and crops set to be withheld from supermarkets

Daily Mail  

Militant farmers will hold back meat and crops from supermarkets next week as part of a ‘national strike’ against Labour’s inheritance tax raids. Farmers drive slowly through central London in protests on food security in March Farmers demonstrated in London in March over food security fears Over 100,000 farms could be hit by Labour's changes to inheritance tax, the Conservatives …

Thousands of farmers to descend on London as Met Police gives green light
1 month, 1 week ago

Thousands of farmers to descend on London as Met Police gives green light

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. We don’t want to bring the capital city to a stop or disrupt roads.” The …

Farmers may never trust Labour again after inheritance tax change, say Tories
1 month, 1 week ago

Farmers may never trust Labour again after inheritance tax change, say Tories

The Independent  

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Farmers exaggerating impact of inheritance tax raid on land, Environment Secretary suggests
1 month, 1 week ago

Farmers exaggerating impact of inheritance tax raid on land, Environment Secretary suggests

The Telegraph  

Sir Keir Starmer also said the “vast majority” of farmers would be unaffected by the changes. “The vast majority of farmers will be unaffected by the changes in the Budget not least because if there’s a married couple the relief is £3 million and that’s why the vast majority of farmers will not be affected at all.” Atkins: ‘Farmers are …

Farmers call for inheritance tax U-turn ahead of crunch talks with ministers
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Farmers call for inheritance tax U-turn ahead of crunch talks with ministers

The Independent  

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Furious farmers call on Labour to axe its inheritance tax raid ahead of key meeting with ministers - as rural rebellion over Chancellor's shock move threatens to boil over
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Furious farmers call on Labour to axe its inheritance tax raid ahead of key meeting with ministers - as rural rebellion over Chancellor's shock move threatens to boil over

Daily Mail  

Furious farmers are calling on the Government to reverse their plans to charge inheritance tax on farms - with the head of the National Farmers' Union claiming it is 'the only sensible course of action'. NFU president Tom Bradshaw is to meet Environment Secretary Steve Reed for crunch talks on Monday amid a growing furore over the Rachel Reeves's decision …

My family have farmed this land for 100 years and fed generations of Britons - but now we could be forced to sell it because of Labour's new tax rules
1 month, 2 weeks ago

My family have farmed this land for 100 years and fed generations of Britons - but now we could be forced to sell it because of Labour's new tax rules

Daily Mail  

A devastated farmer whose land has been passed down through generations has told of how his family could face an inheritance tax bill of almost £2million. Kim Gower, who owns Blandred Farm in Folkestone, Kent, is equally aghast and fears the new inheritance tax could force the family to sell off a fifth of their land. Mr Twyman inherited the …

Elon Musk tells Keir Starmer to 'leave the farmers alone' after Labour's raid on inheritance tax sparks uproar from farming families who fear 'disgusting land grab' will destroy their way of life
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Elon Musk tells Keir Starmer to 'leave the farmers alone' after Labour's raid on inheritance tax sparks uproar from farming families who fear 'disgusting land grab' will destroy their way of life

Daily Mail  

Elon Musk has slammed Labour's brutal inheritance tax hike that will negatively impact farming families. His comments come as Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour party announced a tax shake-up this week, including a major change to inheritance tax. Elon Musk has slammed Labour's brutal inheritance tax hike that will impact farming families Musk's comments come as Sir Keir Starmer …

Farmers ride tractors into central London in major protest over trade deals
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Farmers ride tractors into central London in major protest over trade deals

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Campaign groups Save British Farming and Fairness for Farmers of Kent have assembled a …

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