inheritance tax

MPs brand family farm tax ‘disgraceful’, saying it reflects Labour’s ‘deep disconnect’ from rural community

Grassroots farming groups will unite on November 24 for a day of peaceful protests

Who are the 26 MPs that form the Labour Rural Research Group, reportedly opposed to the Government's current changes to Inheritance Tax, and do they deserve credit for potentially going against their party on the issue?

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

Changes could see full relief from IHT up to £5m per person (£10m for a married couple) where farmland or business assets form at least 60% of an estate

South Antrim MP Robin Swann writes on rumours that the Treasury could modify Inheritance Tax by granting full relief up to £5 million where farmland or business assets make up at least 60% of an estate. However, he has urged caution that nothing is final until Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces finer details at the Autumn Budget in November

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Ruth Umpleby discusses the dairy sector and recent milk price reductions

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

The campaign led by Farmers to Action arrived at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool on Sunday (September 28) to deliver messages from farmers to the Government