If you thought the inheritance tax raid on farmers was bad, wait till you see what its proponents have in store for us next, says Mat Brown. The Blob that gave us the 'tractor tax' has its sights set on a wealth tax.
Farmers have threatened to bring Britain to a standstill in a "war" against the Government’s inheritance tax raid as hundreds of tractors descended on central London today.
Rachel Reeves's 'tractor tax' will hit 2,500 farmers a year, 75,000 over a generation – five times as many as the Chancellor claims because she doesn't understand the industry, a leading expert has said.
British beer is under threat because of the Government’s "tractor tax" that could sound "the death knell" for hop farmers, Keir Starmer has been warned.
Labour is continuing to hand out more than £500 million to foreign farmers – about the same amount projected to be raised by its inheritance tax raid on British farms that threatens to "destroy" them.
Know-it-alls in the media have been saying that farmers should have to pay inheritance tax just like everyone else does on a house. They're missing just one tiny detail, says Philip Leith: a farm is nothing like a house.
The BBC Verify unit used a Labour Party activist as an "independent tax expert" to back its analysis of Government figures on the farm tax, analysis that Keir Starmer then cited as proof he was correct.
Farmers have been told by Rachel Reeves that they must pay inheritance tax to fund the NHS, despite mass protests planned for today and warnings the tax's impact has been massively underestimated.
Furious farmers have descended on the Wales Labour Conference with tractors and placards, accusing Keir Starmer of waging a "war on the countryside" over inheritance tax changes.
A former aide to Tony Blair has called on Labour to "do to the farmers what Thatcher did to the miners".
