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The Government’s Budget decision to target agricultural assets with inheritance tax has sparked uproar among farmers, with the turmoil in the sector such that one has allegedly taken his own life. But amid the ire at Labour, many outraged farmers now have a new enemy – turning on their own union, the NFU, after it limited planned protests. But farmers …
Farmers want to be “militant” in response to Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid, the president of the National Farmers Union has said. Tom Bradshaw, the president of the union, which represents more than 46,000 farming and growing businesses, said something “has to change” on the policy, which was announced by the Chancellor in the Budget last week. Ms Reeves said …
In a move to address one of the core anomalies of the services with respect to their civil counterparts in the government, the Centre has decided to grant Non-Functional Upgrade benefit over which a legal battle has been going on for some time. In December 2016, the Principal Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal, New Delhi granted NFU to armed …