Because if they can't then in a lot of cases the famers are no longer viable as businesses. As has been repeated many tiems recently (and as the thicker supporters of this policy fail to compreh… (View Post)

Part of that might be the collapse of tenancy after WW2. In 1950 agriculture employed around 800,000 people (paid labour and tenants rather than farm owners). Today it is around 180,000. The amalgama… (View Post)

This is not about closing loopholes. If it was they would have sorted out making sure it hit the investors not the generational farmers. And as I said, the investors will just moving on leaving the f… (View Post)

The reality is it isn't because the multi millionaires are the ones who can do the clever tax planning and will end up paying none of the tax. It is the farmers who can't simply move their … (View Post)

Understatement of the day. (View Post)