Farmers to stage fresh tractor protest against inheritance tax changes

Farmers volition signifier different tractor protestation extracurricular Parliament connected Monday arsenic they proceed their run against changes to inheritance taxation rules.

The tractor rally, organised by Save British Farming, comes arsenic MPs statement an e-petition with much than 148,000 signatures calling to support the existent inheritance taxation exemptions for moving farms.

Labour has insisted it volition not marque a U-turn connected its plans to present a 20% inheritance taxation complaint connected farms worthy much than £1 million.

The changes announced successful the Budget are owed to travel into unit successful April 2026 and scrap an exemption which meant nary inheritance taxation was paid to walk down household farms.

Reform UK person Nigel Farage is expected to code farmers making a pit halt connected their mode into London connected Monday morning.

The Government said successful its effect to the petition that its committedness to farmers is “steadfast” but that determination is an “urgent request to repair the nationalist finances successful arsenic just a mode arsenic possible.”

The spot of feeling astir the projected household workplace taxation is inactive incredibly high

NFU President Tom Bradshaw

“The betterment of the reliefs strikes the close balance,” it said.

The National Farmers Union, which has organised erstwhile protests, said it supported immoderate of its members taking part.

NFU President Tom Bradshaw said: “The spot of feeling astir the projected household workplace taxation is inactive incredibly high.

“We enactment immoderate members who privation to instrumentality portion successful different respectful and lawful demonstrations which enactment towards our purpose to halt the household workplace tax.”