So you can get grants to do the things the government wants you to do, but only if you own the land outright: Tenant farmers get left out in the cold. The “council purchases the land & gives itse… (View Post)

As an apt demonstration of how local councils are an obstacle to economic growth in this country you couldn’t ask for better. As a demonstration of how profitable modern farming is, I’m not so sure: … (View Post)

I think you have missed my point: 100% relief on IHT for farmland may have been introduced in the 1980s, but the wealthy at that point could evade IHT by putting their assets into trust: they had no … (View Post)

The UK was last self-sufficient in food around the mid 18th century. Up until the mid 19th we could feed outselves most of the time, but a poor harvest would have led to starvation without imports. S… (View Post)

The rules on the taxation of trusts were changed in 2006. Look when farmland prices start to rocket: https://www.savills.co.uk/landing-pages/rural-land-values.aspx It seems plausible that pre 2006, t… (View Post)