
Labour's inheritance tax raid on family farms could turn them into 'net zero forests' used by foreign firms for carbon offsetting instead of food, landowners claim
Daily MailLabour's plan to force farmers to pay inheritance tax on agricultural land could see it taken out of food production by foreign firms who use it for carbon offsetting, a leading landowners organisation has claimed. The head of the Country and Land Business Association warned that tracts of productive soil could also be bought up by environmental charities for 'biodiversity projects' that generate no IHT for the Treasury. It comes as farmers gear up for a major protest against the Budget changes that will see IHT charged at 20 per cent on agricultural assets above £1 million. The head of the Country and Land Business Association warned that tracts of productive soil could also be bought up by environmental charities for 'biodiversity projects' that generate no IHT.
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Why are Britain’s farmers protesting over Labour’s inheritance tax changes?
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Government urged to ‘do right thing’ over inheritance tax for reset with farmers
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Brexit divisions among farmers are endangering fight against Reeves’ tractor tax
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‘If the farmers continue, they’ll win’: Hundreds of tractors descend on Westminster in latest tax protest
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Why are Britain’s farmers protesting?
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Every major supermarket turns on Starmer over tractor tax
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Labour land grab for housing and solar poses fresh blow for farmers
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Farmers call Government reforms ‘load of rubbish’ as anger over tax persists
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Keir Starmer warned many family farms ‘won’t survive to see government’s plans to help boost profits’
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Farming chief calls for pause on ‘disastrous’ tractor tax in latest blow to Starmer over controversial change
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Now farmers threaten chaos at the checkouts: 'Extreme factions' fighting Labour tax plans warn they could blockade supermarket depots 'within weeks' - risking panic buying as shelves empty
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UK’s top union leader turns on Starmer over impact of family farm tax
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Keir Starmer reveals the real reason for his ‘family farm tax’ in grilling by senior MPs
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The ‘tractor tax’ needs to be rethought to protect family farms
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Labour MP branded 'completely ignorant' for claiming it's 'quite hard to find a poor farmer' amid fresh protests over Rachel Reeves' tax raid
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Farm tax changes under fire in Parliament as angry farmers protest outside
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Loophole used by super rich to avoid tractor tax unavailable to family farms
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Opposition growing to family farm tax ahead of major protest in London
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Kirstie Allsopp's inheritance tax nightmare
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Labour MP becomes first to attack party’s inheritance tax raid on farms
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Farmers will fight 'for as long as it takes' to halt Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax raid, union president warns
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Revealed: How parents of Labour's poshest MP put hundreds of acres beyond the reach of the taxman just 20 days before the Budget clobbered farmers. GUY ADAMS investigates
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Starmer may be ‘softening’ on Labour’s ‘tractor tax’, NFU president claims
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PM: Government is ‘for farmers’ and most will be unaffected by tax change
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Reeves’s inheritance tax raid ‘hits farmers harder than tax avoiders’
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‘Labour becoming the cruel party’ over tax changes, warns farmer baroness
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Why farmers are fretting across the world
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Independent readers left divided over Labour’s ‘tractor tax’ on inherited farms
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Reeves denies claims she is about to exempt over-80s from family farm tax
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Farmers should shut up and muck in – for the greater good
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Labour is losing the PR battle over the ‘tractor tax’
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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
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Angela Rayner refuses to rule out further increases to inheritance tax on farmers
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Moment Angela Rayner refuses to rule out MORE hikes to inheritance tax while standing in for Starmer at PMQs - dismissing 'scaremongering' about hit to farmers
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NFU chief hints farmers could take more extreme action if government ignores inheritance tax protest
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Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
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Farmers protest in central London over tax changes
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Many farmers ‘wrong’ about inheritance tax change, Environment Secretary says
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The real threat to British farmers… and it isn’t the ‘tractor tax’
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More farmers seeking financial advice over inheritance tax changes, say experts
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UK farmers rally to oppose government's inheritance tax reforms
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Farmers’ protest: Why are farm owners demonstrating over inheritance tax?
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Do you support the ‘tractor tax’ on inherited farms? Join The Independent Debate
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British farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’ on inheritance
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Ailbhe Rea: Farmers Descend on Westminster
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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
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Rachel Reeves’s flawed inheritance tax for farmers demands a rethink
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Labour digs in over family farm tax raid: Defra's bid to soften the Budget blow is rejected by Downing Street
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Government confusion over how many farms will be hit by controversial tractor tax
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Inheritance tax reforms having ‘chilling effect’ on Scottish farming – Swinney
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