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Row over changes to farming inheritance tax: key questions answered

Farmers are descending on Westminster to protest about the changes which they warn will be devastating for farming families.

Evening Standard

Why farmers are protesting in London over inheritance tax

Farmers are descending on London to protest

The Independent UK

Farmers’ protest live: Police probe tractors breaking barrier as Clarkson says inheritance tax a ‘hammer blow’

Farmers from across the country have travelled to London this morning to join protests over changes to inheritance tax rules

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Farmers’ protest: What’s happening in London today?

Up to 40,000 people set to march on Westminster in protest over inheritance tax on agricultural land

The Independent UK

Why are farmers protesting as tractors descend on London?

Tractors set to flood London as MPs debate e-petition over current tax exemptions for working farms

Evening Standard

Farmers set to protest over ‘completely unacceptable’ inheritance tax changes

Government is insisting the introduction of inheritance tax on farm businesses worth more than £1m is ‘fair’ and closes a loophole.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer defends inheritance tax change amid farmers’ outrage

PM ‘absolutely confident’ that ‘vast majority’ of farms will be exempt as union prepares protests in London

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‘You can’t keep coming for agriculture’: farmers prepare to protest over bitter budget harvest

Activists and the NFU insist Labour tax reforms aimed at the wealthy will also hurt smaller, poorer producers

The Guardian - UK

Farmers in England and Wales feel betrayed by inheritance tax changes, says NFU

Union leader says anger is unprecedented, but does not condone any plan to stop food reaching supermarkets

The Guardian - UK

Farmers ‘betrayed’ over inheritance tax but should not withhold food – NFU chief

A row has erupted over the new taxes for farms worth more than £1 million.

Evening Standard

‘We’ve become the voice of agriculture’: the social media influencers driving the big farming protests

With tens of thousands of followers, the online community is a powerful part of the campaign against government tax policy

The Guardian - UK

Government defends farm tax changes as support for protests swells

Farmers are planning a mass lobby of MPs and rally next week in Parliament.

Evening Standard

Farm incomes plummeted by 50% in a year, official figures reveal as fears grow over ‘tractor tax’

Farm incomes are at their lowest since 2015/16, official figures indicate

The Independent UK

Confusion over how many farms will be hit by controversial tractor tax after ‘staggering’ admission

Critics argue that Defra figures suggest Treasury claims that only 28 per cent of farms will be affected are wrong

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

British farming is already in a grim state. Labour’s new measures will only make it worse

Brexit, the cost of living and the climate crisis are all making farmers’ lives much more difficult. Taxing us is not the answer, says regenerative farmer Tom Fairfax

Evening Standard

Farmers threaten to block 'ports and disrupt food supply' in protest against inheritance tax raid

Farmers have threatened to blockade ports and disrupt food supply in protest against Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget inheritance tax changes.

The Independent UK

Thousands of farmers to descend on London after Met Police green lights ‘tractor tax’ protest

The event’s organiser said he could see the number of attendees exceed 10,000

The Independent UK

Farmers plan splinter rally over Budget amid concern NFU event too small

The NFU said there were ‘legal issues’ preventing its members turning up in large numbers on the streets of Westminster.

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The Independent UK

Labour warned UK is facing ‘humanitarian crisis’ in farming as thousands march on London

Farming leaders are urging Labour ministers to rethink plans to impose inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1m

The Guardian - UK

Tax changes in budget last straw for UK farmers after ‘years of being squeezed’

Farmers’ union to bring 1,800 members to Westminster in protest, but some say mega-rich landowners are the problem

The Independent UK

Labour doesn’t understand the countryside, say farmers in warning ‘tractor tax’ will destroy village life

Farmers say they’re already seeing the ‘slow erosion of country life’ as they warn last week’s Budget could have dire consequences

Evening Standard

Farmers ‘worried about getting to next harvest’ stage protest over Budget plans

Farmers gathered outside the Northern Farming Conference in Northumberland warning that the proposals could ‘decimate the countryside’.

The Independent UK

Labour accused of ‘traumatising’ farmers in ‘tractor tax’ raid amid warning over mental health crisis

MPs and farmers have attacked the government’s decision to extend inheritance tax to family farms

The Independent UK

Farmers warn 75% of British food production will be hit by Reeves’s tax raid

The NFU’s Tom Bradshaw warned the government had not considered at all the impact on food production

The Guardian - UK

NFU rejects Treasury claim that 72% of farms won’t pay inheritance tax

Union says Defra figures show far more farmers will be hit by budget proposal and warns of ‘militant protest’ to come

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