Politics

Scottish MPs told James Murray, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, his Government needs to amend section 177 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 to ensure Scottish tenant farmers are excluded from reforms to Agricultural Property Relief

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

Speaking on a panel giving evidence to the Efra Committee, Ms Wilson said she had been made aware of information that products of animal origin from Germany had been auto-cleared via Todcof in the last couple of weeks

Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister Samuel Kurtz has accused the First Minister of Wales of a ‘dereliction of duty' in failing to raise the concerns of Welsh farmers regarding the family farm tax in a meeting with the Chancellor

Will the Chancellor finally listen to the concerns addressed by the farming sector and do the right thing for farmers on Inheritance Tax changes?

Plaid Cymru's Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs Llyr Gruffydd, who is leading the debate said the IHT policy was ‘unforgiveable and utterly counter-productive' at a time when food security must be strengthened not undermined

Farmers march on Whitehall in next round of family farm tax protests

Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe, who is also a farmer, writes on abolishing Inheritance Tax, the need for change in British agriculture, and supporting British farmers

Today (March 4) farmers are heading to Whitehall in another show of unity against the new Inheritance Tax rules

Campaign group Feedback says Conservative Government failed to take in environmental considerations when signing agreement