Articles for Farm Tax

ROBERT HARDMAN: Decision to ban farmers' anti-inheritance tax adverts on the tube shows how Labour's petty tribalists censor dissent
1 week, 5 days ago

ROBERT HARDMAN: Decision to ban farmers' anti-inheritance tax adverts on the tube shows how Labour's petty tribalists censor dissent

Daily Mail  

A last-minute entry, surely, for the 2024 Two-Tier Keir Awards, celebrating the best of double standards in public life. Having seen the assisted dying lobby, the animal rights lobby, the human rights lobby, the business lobby and others slap their messages across the most influential advertising billboards in Britain – those at Westminster’s Tube station – the farming lobby were …

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Opposition growing to family farm tax ahead of major protest in London
4 weeks, 2 days 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 …

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Reeves denies claims she is about to exempt over-80s from family farm tax
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Reeves denies claims she is about to exempt over-80s from family farm tax

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 A source close to Rachel Reeves has strongly denied reports that …

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Starmer warned Labour faces wipeout of rural MPs in farm tax backlash ahead of protest
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Starmer warned Labour faces wipeout of rural MPs in farm tax backlash ahead of protest

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. Some of the farming community’s anger has been vented at newly elected Labour MPs …

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British farmers warn of bitter harvest
1 month, 3 weeks ago

British farmers warn of bitter harvest

China Daily  

Farmers claim they have been fighting a financial battle for years. Clarkson has now become a figurehead for farmers' discontent, most particularly over the new government's planned reforms to inheritance tax on farms, which Webster called "a culture war that shows they have scant regard for country life". "After that strike, the few mines left were private and they do …

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We face a £1m tax bill when my parents die – we don’t have that kind of money
2 months ago

We face a £1m tax bill when my parents die – we don’t have that kind of money

The Independent  

For five generations, my family has farmed sheep and arable crops on our land in Yorkshire. By our calculations, even using personal allowances, the chancellor’s proposal could hit us with a tax bill of nearly £1m when my parents die. To pay a tax bill like that, we’d probably have to either borrow the money – plunging the business into …

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Government urged to do right thing and reverse ‘family farm tax’
2 months, 1 week ago

Government urged to do right thing and reverse ‘family farm tax’

The Independent  

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How a Georgia pine farm became a significant tax deduction
2 years, 8 months ago

How a Georgia pine farm became a significant tax deduction

Live Mint  

Baptist minister John M. McGinnis left his family a 434-acre pine-tree farm when he died in 2006, writing in his will that his heirs could eventually sell it for a “hunk of cash." “It’s all about tax shelters and selling tax shelters," said Denise Perry, executive director of the Georgia Agricultural Land Trust, who tracks easement deals across the state. …

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Top news of the day: Modi announces repeal of farm laws, protesting farmers say they won’t budge till Parliament does so, and more
3 years, 1 month ago

Top news of the day: Modi announces repeal of farm laws, protesting farmers say they won’t budge till Parliament does so, and more

The Hindu  

“I apologise to you, my countrymen, that despite my government’s good intentions, there may have been some lack in our Tapasya that we could not convince some of our farmer brothers of the intentions of these laws which were as pure as the light from a lamp,” the Prime Minister said in an address to the nation. However, they were …

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New farm laws won't finish mandi system, farmers will benefit in all ways: Agri minister Narendra Tomar
4 years, 1 month ago

New farm laws won't finish mandi system, farmers will benefit in all ways: Agri minister Narendra Tomar

India Today  

A constant refrain among the farmers protesting nationwide has been the fear that the Centre's new farm laws will lead to the scrapping of mandis and leave them to the mercy of big corporates. Addressing these concerns, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the government's new farm laws will not negatively impact the mandi system in India. Speaking to …

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Growing a green and gold oasis in the desert sands
4 years, 11 months ago

Growing a green and gold oasis in the desert sands

China Daily  

Today, the Babusha Forest Farm on the southern edge of the Tengeri Desert has transformed from a desert to a cornucopia. The forest farm established Babusha Greening Co Ltd in 2012 to carry out the sand control and afforestation work of the Three North Shelterbelt Forest Program, using the model of "company plus base plus farmers". In 2019, the forest …

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