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Farmers Descend On London To Overturn Inheritance Tax Change

UK farmers are demanding a rethink of the government's changes to inheritance tax (Credit: AFP)

British farmers massed in London on Tuesday for protests against controversial government plans to change inheritance tax rules for land ownership, which they claim threatens to break up the sector and hit food production.

Farming businesses previously qualified for 100-percent relief on inheritance tax on agricultural and business property, reducing the amounts that farmers and landowners pay when farmland is passed on after a death.

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