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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Emily Beament

‘Disastrous’ farm inheritance tax changes makes thriving sector impossible – NFU

Sheep on a farm in North Yorkshire (Danny Lawson/PA) - (PA Archive)

A farming leader has urged the Government to pause its “disastrous” reforms to agricultural inheritance tax in order to deliver on food security and growth.

National Farmers’ Union president Tom Bradshaw said he had never before seen the “anger, despair and sense of betrayal” prompted by ending the 100% exemption from inheritance tax on qualifying business and agricultural assets worth more than £1 million.

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