Farmers across the country are protesting over the Chancellor’s inheritance tax reforms and are stepping up their campaign.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) handed in a petition which has been signed by more than 270,000 members which was hand delivered to 10 Downing Street by the President Tom Bradshaw and the Wels President Aled Jones.
The NFU are urning the government to U-turn on the tax reform as it will “decimate” the UK’s agricultural industry as it is a “devastating family farm tax.”
Rachel Hallos, a livestock farmer from the South Pennines and the vice president of the NFU, said she hopes the protests will “raise awareness” over Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax on farmers.
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She said, “The inheritance tax changes from the Budget will ultimately decimate what we’ve currently got in this country, and we’re really worried about it.
“Today is about telling people why we are so concerned, trying to explain how complicated the food supply chain is, because it really is, and that farmers are at the beginning of that food supply chain.
“We completely appreciate that a lot of members of the general public will say, ‘Oh for goodness sake, you’re alright in your big farmhouses, all this lamb that you own…’
“But the reality is, those are our assets, we never sell them.
“So it’s complicated, and we’re just trying to shed a light on it for some members of the public who don’t quite understand why we’re making so much noise about this.”
She added, “We genuinely don’t believe that the Government understands the complexity of what it is that happens in the countryside and how entwined all those rural businesses are.
“They all rely on each other.
“It’s a little bit like a deck of cards – if you pull one of those cards out, the whole thing comes tumbling down.
“And the fact that the entire industry has come together with such strength and such clarity, and for the Government to disregard that and not want to sit at the table and talk about this is quite remarkable.
“Food and environment just doesn’t seem to be important to this Government.”
She added, “We’ve already seen huge public support.
“We want to grow that support with our customers, because these are our customers, and hopefully the Government finally realises that they need to sit down and have a conversation with us.
“Let’s work this out between us – let’s find out what to do, what to achieve out of this, and we’ll help them achieve that without causing that disaster to the food supply chain.”
A spokesperson for the NFU said, “It’s about going out to the public in the town centres and thanking them for their support, encouraging them to keep supporting farming.
“The visibility is about a reminder that the problem is still there.”
They added, “We want the chance to meet and discuss, and review the decisions that she (Chancellor Rachel Reeves) has made.”
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