Jeremy Clarkson finds 'genius' loophole to help farmers avoid Rachel Reeves' tax raid

Jeremy Clarkson has voiced his absorption to Reeves' levy (Image: Getty)

Top Gear and Grand Tour big turned farming campaigner Jeremy Clarkson has exposed a spread successful Rachel Reeves' taxation connected farmers.

The Chancellor announced successful her Budget connected October 30 that, from April 2026, inheritance tax alleviation for concern and cultivation assets would beryllium capped astatine £1million, with a caller reduced complaint of 20% being charged supra that.

This has been met with passionate absorption from farmers, with aggregate protests taking spot successful Whitehall.

Mr Clarkson, who presents the palmy Amazon Prime bid Clarkson's Farm, has voiced his absorption to the policy, suggesting that beingness is already hard capable for cultivation workers.

Rachel Reeves has been slammed by farmers (Image: Getty)

Now, helium has told farmers astir an “ingenious” loophole that could beryllium utilized to flight Ms Reeves' currency grab.

Mr Clarkson desribed a “complicated” mode to get an unencumbered inheritance from a hypothetical aged widower husbandman to his lad successful his Sun column.

The Who Wants to beryllium a Millionaire big suggested that the lad divorcement his woman truthful that she tin past wed the father. Then, aft the latter's death, the workplace would past passe to her without passing done the Chancellor's fiscal ringer.

The strategy pays disconnected erstwhile the lad remarries his ex-wife, and mother-in-law. This means that the workplace is transferred from begetter to lad without having to wage the punitive levy.

Mr Clarkson has protested with farmers (Image: Getty)

A satisfied Mr Clarkson past enthused: “Bob’s your uncle!”

Although, this program appeared to person an contented with it aft the Cotswolds effect sewer suggested it to a husbandman friend. He fretted that helium couldn’t instrumentality vantage owed to lone having daughters.

Mr Clarkson told him to "relax", and advised him to wed his son-in-law.

The file read: “We unrecorded successful modern times. That’s allowed now.

Mr Clarkson ended by writing: “And it’d beryllium worthy it, conscionable to spot the transverse look connected Ms Reeves’ face.”