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NFU has announced a 'huge banner campaign' in its bid to stop the changes to Inheritance Tax announced in the Autumn Budget

The latest episode of the Farmers Guardian podcast from the news and business team

The Office for National Statistics said GDP fell 0.1% in October 2024. Services showed 'no growth', while Production (-0.6%) and construction (-0.4%) both fell.

The need to keep up the momentum to force change on Inheritance Tax plans and FG's campaign to Save Britain's Family Farms were on the agenda this week from Farmers Guardian's Head of News and Business Alex Black

Agricultural groups across Europe voice opposition to deal

"(Farmers) who are genuinely in ill health or don't believe that they will be able to live for seven years, may well decide they shouldn't be here in April 2026. No policy should ever be published which has that unintended side effect"

"Our countryside will remain needlessly under threat"

"I do not think large farmers should be exempt from Inheritance Tax because no-one else is"

Government urged to intervene to ensure health of food and farming for the future

Howes Percival partner Stuart Maggs, said it was ‘disingenuous' to suggest the only people impacted by this policy are the ones having to pay tax, highlighting many farmers who will spend ‘thousands if not tens of thousands' on legal fees in response to the policy change