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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Emily Beament

Government facing calls to scrap ‘family farm tax’ as farmers march on Whitehall

Farmers have reacted with anger and dismay to the inheritance tax changes for farming businesses (Jacob King/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Government is facing calls from farmers and opposition parties to scrap its changes to agricultural inheritance tax ahead of protests in Westminster.

The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is holding a mass lobby of MPs with 1,800 of its members – three times as many people as originally planned – to urge backbenchers to stand up to the Government’s plans to impose inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million.

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