Next up, after Jeremy “I bought my farm in order to avoid inheritance tax“ Clarkson; that well known farmer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who definitely hasn’t bought 5,000 acres in order to avoid inheritance… (View Post)

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)