A small, wealthy minority controls a disproportionate share of farm income, while the political narrative continues to be ...

Sir Keir Starmer was forced into a major climbdown on his inheritance tax policy on Tuesday following a backlash - Martin Pope/Getty Images Sir Keir Starmer has presided over a record number of ...

Derbyshire Dales MP John Whitby has promised to keep pushing the government to rethink its plans to tax inherited farm land. He and other fellow Labour backbenchers from rural areas abstained in a ...

In a particularly cruel way, the policy attacked the very heart of why farmers work punishingly long days to put food on our tables FOR months, ministers defended the farm tax in the face of ...

Farmers in Cornwall have said the government's climbdown on inheritance tax has not gone far enough. On Tuesday, the government said it would raise the inheritance tax (IHT) relief threshold for ...

Long-criticised changes to Inheritance Tax liabilities for farmers have been watered down by the government following more than a year of lobbying and a series of farmer protests. The government today ...

Farmers in Northern Ireland "never gave up hope" that the government would move on its proposals around inheritance tax. William Irvine, the president of the Ulster Farmers Union, has welcomed a move ...

The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has welcomed the Government’s decision to increase the inheritance tax threshold for farms and confirmed it will continue lobbying for “full reversal”. Introduced by ...

The government has today (Tuesday 23 December) announced that the level of the Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs threshold will be increased from £1m to £2.5m when it is introduced in April ...

LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Britain's government said on Tuesday it would scale back its plan to raise more tax from farmers, following months of protests since the introduction of an inheritance tax ...