Farming leaders’ fury as Treasury stands firm on inheritance tax change

Farmers in their tractors protested in Whitehall, London, against changes to inheritance tax rules (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

Agricultural leaders left a meeting with the Treasury with “boiling blood” after the Government faced down their arguments to rethink proposed changes to inheritance tax on farms.

Exchequer Secretary James Murray and farming minister Daniel Zeichner spoke to representatives of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), the Tenant Farmers Association (TFA), the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) and the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) in Westminster on Tuesday morning.