I completely agree that an annual land value tax would be simpler & fairer than IHT & a bunch of other weird land taxes, but unfortunately it’s wildly unpopular with the electorate: Taxing gr… (View Post)

Right now it’s being steadily bought up by the likes of James Dyson instead. Is that really an improvement? (View Post)

It’s a business asset: everybody else has to pay it, why should farmers be exempt? The land will still get farmed by somebody. (View Post)

Farmers get a) a lower rate of IHT and b) ten years to pay it. That’s quite the deal compared to the one everyone else gets for paying IHT. Farmland prices should drop as a result of this change, whi… (View Post)

Even amongst Reform voters there’s a clear majority in favour of continuing to arm Ukraine if Ukrainians choose to continue the fight. (Personally, I think this is Ukraine’s choice to make, and we sh… (View Post)