{"id":298931,"date":"2024-11-21T05:54:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T05:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298931"},"modified":"2024-11-22T08:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T08:25:35","slug":"explained-how-uk-inheritance-tax-is-part-of-the-war-on-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298931","title":{"rendered":"Explained: How UK Inheritance Tax is part of the War on Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Kightly \u2013 Off Guardian Nov 18, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The British government\u2019s inheritance tax reforms aren\u2019t about class warfare or filling the \u201cblack hole\u201d in the country\u2019s budget, they are about taking vital land off small and medium-sized family farms and handing it to mega-corporations.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s yet another piece of the Great Reset agenda, specifically the war on food.<\/p>\n

A quick course for non-Brits who don\u2019t know how our country works (and, indeed, the substantial number of Brits who have recently demonstrated they don\u2019t know how their own country works):<\/p>\n

Since 1984 working farms have been 100% exempt from paying inheritance tax under the \u201cagricultural property relief\u201d (APR) system.<\/p>\n

The justification for this was that working farms are needed to produce the food we all eat, and since British farming families are generally asset-rich but cash-poor, charging inheritance tax on farmland might negatively impact farm output.<\/p>\n

Keir Starmer\u2019s government has just announced that, as of April 2026, they are scrapping the APR scheme.<\/p>\n

This means anyone inheriting a working farm will now have to pay up to 20% of the value of the assets in tax, and since farmers operate on fine margins that will likely mean selling of parcels of land to raise money. Some farmers may be forced to sell all the land at once<\/a>, since piece-meal buyers may be hard to find.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, the farmers are not happy about this. Nor is anyone who understands the potential implications.<\/p>\n

This is being billed in the press as old-fashioned left vs right politics, the narrative is that the country needs revenue and that \u201cgreedy hoarding farmers aren\u2019t paying their fair share\u201d.<\/p>\n

But, in my view, this is a lie.<\/p>\n

Or at best a distortion. A noisy public debate that obfuscates the real intention of the policy.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think ghis has anything to do with raising taxes. I think this is about the land<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

They know this policy will force medium-sized family-run farms to sell \u2013 in fact, they are banking on it.<\/p>\n

Take a look at \u00a0Will Hutton\u2019s column in The Guardian<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain<\/p>\n

Hard to see this as anything but \u00a0an admission of the real policy here.<\/p>\n

And then we have former \u00a0Blair aide John McTernan landing himself in hot water<\/a> when he told an interviewer Starmer\u2019s government should \u201cdo to farmers what Thatcher did to miners\u201d<\/em>, claiming \u201cfarming is an industry we can do without\u201d<\/em>. Labour officials were quick to disavow the comments, but you can\u2019t help but think it was a \u201cquiet part loud\u201d moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As usual, it is the journalists and twitterati carrying the bag for tyranny, making bitter, snarky social media posts<\/a> about \u201cmillionaire farmers\u201d or rambling on about farmers deserving to lose their business because they voted for Brexit.<\/p>\n

Yes, seriously:<\/p>\n

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“It does beg the question whether farmers are simply reaping what they sowed.”@Matthew_Wright<\/a> would have more sympathy for farmers complaining about inheritance tax if the majority of them hadn’t made the country “\u00a3100 billion a year worse off” by voting for Brexit. pic.twitter.com\/9ot55mYT8L<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 LBC (@LBC) November 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n