[Diggers350] WESTMINSTER DEMO Tue19Nov: Labours family farm tax grab a closure of the mines moment
Tony Gosling
tony at cultureshop.org.uk
Tue Nov 5 01:58:30 GMT 2024
Why Labours inheritance tax family farm grab is
a closure of the mines moment for British farming
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This is a turning point in British history, he
predicts. People will come to realise this is a
closure of the mines moment for UK agriculture,
in the same way it affected those mining towns
for generations, it will change rural Britain and
the British landscape forever. It knocks on to
everything in market towns, the local shops, the
pubs, the schools, the livestock auctioneers, the
suppliers, the drivers the lot. Family farms
are just the base of the pyramid. The £1
million sum exposes it. Its not just short of
the mark, its ten times short of the mark.
Emacs!
Why Labours Budget is a closure of the mines moment for British farming
Farmers united in outrage and disbelief over the
Governments tax grab on their livelihoods fear
it could be the end of the line for them
<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/31/labours-budget-is-a-closure-of-the-mines-moment-farmers/>31
October 2024 Guy Kelly
<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/31/labours-budget-is-a-closure-of-the-mines-moment-farmers/>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/31/labours-budget-is-a-closure-of-the-mines-moment-farmers/
Clive Bailye has always known that farming is a
long game. As a child, it was one of the first
lessons his father taught him as they trampled
around their familys fields in south
Staffordshire. A generation before, Bailyes
father had been taught the same by his father,
who began with just two acres after the Second World War.
Emacs!
Some talk about going on strike, refusing to let
food leave their farms
but everyones terrified
of being imprisoned for being the one to organise
it, says farmer Clive Bailye
Optimism is at the heart of things. You sow crops
with planning, caution and a small dose of hope.
You harvest with one eye on the next year, and
the year after that. And in lean times, you have
to remind yourself that things will always get
better. Recently, as farmers across the UK have
been hit by all manner of blights the climate
emergency, geopolitical strife, ever more
powerful supermarkets, Brexit repercussions
hes found comfort in that attitude.
Then opposition leader, Sir Keir Starmer,
addresses 2023 NFU Conference in Birmingham
This is a multigenerational, long-term vocation.
You cant make money in a single year, and it
doesnt work on a single generation, Bailye
says. [Farmers] have been on our knees, but you
keep the next generation in mind and think, It
might not be working for me, but think ahead. It
will get there eventually, even if its 200
years. He sighs. Well, after this, thats just
not the case anymore. This is the end of the line.
The this Bailye refers to is Labours Budget
announcement that from April 2026, it will reform
the Agricultural Property Relief (APR), which
allows farmers to easily pass their businesses to
the next generation, by introducing a 20 per cent
tax rate on the value of all farms and businesses
worth more than £1 million. It is an inheritance
tax tweak that seems not just ill thought-out
but, to some at least, wilfully capricious.
Farmers are united in disbelief and outrage;
behind them, a chorus of high-profile support
grows more and more vociferous. If Labour felt
taking on farmers would be easy, they may now be thinking twice.
Emacs!
<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/06/james-rebanks-interview-farmer-author-defra/>Farmer
and author James Rebanks: I hate the word rewilding its been weaponised
Rachel Reeves. I literally darent comment,
wrote Jeremy Clarkson who is, among other
things, surely the loudest and most influential
voice in British agriculture these days to his
eight million followers on X. He eventually did
dare, of course. Farmers. I know that you have
been shafted today. But please dont despair.
Just look after yourselves for five short years and this shower will be gone.
Clarksons neighbour, the popular YouTuber and
farmer Harry Metcalfe, simply called it the end
of family farms in the UK. Rachel Johnson, the
writer and broadcaster, asked if it is really
worth fing family farms, undermining food
security, forcing land clearances and fire sales
of agricultural assets, breaking the continuity
of generations of stewardship, just to raise a
measly £500 million to chuck into the black hole?
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9n2nev17ko>Inheritance
tax change will cripple family farms
James Rebanks, the bestselling author and upland
farmer, also took to social media to rail against
various decisions and betrayals both by Labour
and Conservative governments against the
farming community. The damage done to these
relationships will last for a very long time
its a disaster of epic proportions, he said, as
well as referring to the UK as one of the
stupidest countries on earth when it comes to [agricultural] policy.
And Kirstie Allsopp, the TV property presenter,
wrote that Reeves has f- -d all farmers, [
]
destroyed their ability to pass farms on to their
children, and broken the future of all our great
estates. The Government has zero understanding of
what matters to rural voters. Later she wondered
aloud what all this meant for The Archers.
Emacs!
Bailye, 51, is less sweary but, being in the
direct line of fire, even more distressed. He
variously calls it a kick in the teeth, a kick
in the b- ks and a complete blindside for
farmers like him. The 750 acres of combined
arable crops he farms near Lichfield was
inherited from his father, who took it over from
his father. Through sweat and toil, judicious
borrowing and wise investments, each generation
worked, made a profit, paid their taxes and
managed to grow the business a bit.
But that was then. Ive got two boys, ones 13
and ones 11, and theyve shown an interest but
Ive never known whether theyd take it on after
me. Well, I do know now: it isnt available to
them. And quite frankly Id encourage them to do
absolutely anything else, given the way were treated by governments.
In Bailyes view, Labours decision to treat
farmers as excessively wealthy types who arent
paying their fair share suggests the Government
has fallen for the great fallacy about his
livelihood: that because farmers have vast lands,
usually a big old house and some very expensive
machinery, they must be stinking rich.
The idea of farmers pretending theyre poor is
ridiculous. In terms of asset wealth, theres no
getting away from the idea that if you own a
farm, and you have the equipment to farm, you
have significant asset wealth. But you cant live
off assets. You live off the profits those assets
generate, and typical farming returns, if youre
good at it and smart with subsidies and know what
youre doing, youre doing well if youre getting
1 or 2 per cent return on investment.
That doesnt make people wealthy when it comes
to putting food on the table and keeping the
lights on. There are family farms with well in
excess of £1 million in assets that are living
below the poverty line, and certainly far less
than the living wage. But thats a difficult
thing to get across to the general public if you
see a farmer in his big house and shiny tractor.
Victoria Vyvyan, president of the Country Land
and Business Association, called Labours move
nothing short of a betrayal of the agricultural
community, given now-Secretary of State Steve
Reed had last year said: We have no intention of
changing [Agricultural Property Relief].
Vyvyan added that an estimated 70,000 family
farms could be hit by the new rules: This puts
dynamite beneath the livelihoods of British
farming, and flies in the face of growth and
investment. Tom Bradshaw, president of the
National Farmers Union (NFU), agreed, calling it
a disastrous Budget for family farmers,
especially since there was a shameless breaking
of clear promises [that] will snatch away the
next generations ability to carry on producing
British food, plan for the future and shepherd the environment.
How agricultural property relief works
You can pass on some agricultural property free
of inheritance tax, either during your lifetime or as part of your will.
Agricultural property that qualifies for
agricultural relief is land or pasture that is
used to grow crops or to rear animals.
It also includes:
Growing crops
Stud farms for breeding and rearing horses and grazing
Trees that are planted and harvested at least
every 10 years (short-rotation coppice)
Land not currently being farmed under the habitat scheme
Land not currently being farmed under a crop rotation scheme
The value of milk quota associated with the land
Some agricultural shares and securities
Farm buildings, farm cottages and farmhouses
These do not qualify for agricultural relief:
Farm equipment and machinery
Derelict buildings
Harvested crops
Livestock
Property subject to a binding contract for sale
Source: Gov.uk
Bailye is now having to face his own future. His
parents, who still own the land, are alive,
albeit elderly and in ill health. When things
pass to me, to pay that tax bill Id have no
choice but to sell at least 20 per cent of the
assets passed to me, and what would be left
wouldnt be a viable farm, or Id have to borrow
to pay that tax bill, but with 1 per cent
returns, you cant afford the interest, never
mind the repayments. No bank would lend it. So
Id have no choice but to sell the lot. And that would be it, he says.
Even if he could secure that loan or make the
business viable again, the next generation only
inherits a burden. Lets say, for arguments
sake, that you did manage to get through that,
why would you want to pass that on to your own
children for them to go through the same? You
wouldnt. Its removed any incentive to invest in UK agriculture whatsoever.
Emacs!
In his spare time, Bailye runs the Farming Forum,
a website he calls Mumsnet for farmers. On
Thursday it was ablaze with thousands of
apoplectic agricultural workers and landowners at
a loss as to why they have been targeted. Bailye
now wonders what form of protest theyll take.
Youve got a demographic of people now who I
think feel they have very little to lose. And
there are very few industries that have the
ability to literally shut down the economy. I
mean, can you imagine just a thousand tractors
driving, quite legally at 20mph, at rush hour, on
main roads? Youd grind the country to a halt, he says.
Others talk about going on strike, refusing to
let food leave their farms. But can they afford
to do that? Everybody wants to do something, but
everyones terrified of being imprisoned for being the one to organise it
Family farmers are, he concedes, a small
minority, but they are also the vital warp in
the fabric of rural communities already under
profound stress. Rip that out and the whole lot
falls apart, Bailye says, leaving behind only
vast megafarms or, more likely, former family
farmland that will will inevitably fall into the
hands of large corporations and institutional
investors that really will have no desire to farm it.
Theyll be far more interested in potential
development, energy uses and carbon offsetting
all the other uses for farmland that I dont
think most people want. And the irony is that
those companies will probably be non-UK or based
offshore and not even paying tax anyway
This is a turning point in British history, he
predicts. People will come to realise this is a
closure of the mines moment for UK agriculture,
in the same way it affected those mining towns
for generations, it will change rural Britain and
the British landscape forever. It knocks on to
everything in those towns, the local shops, the
pubs, the schools, the livestock auctioneers, the
markets, the suppliers, the drivers the lot.
Family farms are just the base of the pyramid. I
just cannot believe this wasnt thought through,
and the £1 million sum exposes it. Its not
just short of the mark, its ten times short of the mark.
On Thursday, farmers on social media were sharing
a clip of a politician making very sound points
to an audience at the NFU conference just last
year. He seemed to get it: Losing a farm is not
like losing any other business, it cant come
back. Thats why the lack of urgency from the
Government, the lack of attention to detail, the
lack of long-term planning
Its not on, you deserve better than that.
The speaker was Sir Keir Starmer. Bailye has now
shared the clip himself. And frankly, the last
prime minister who told lies like that had to resign, he says.
Across the country, farmers have been hit by an
almighty, sudden blight. But as always, theyll
play the long game. The next general election is
in 2029. Starmer and Reeves may have just sown the seeds of revolt.
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