Quote Originally Posted by Eric Cartman View Post
Yeah but it's been a loophole for tossers like Clarkson to abuse for years. When you change a tax, there will always be some people who feel a bit hard done by.

I think all this really highlights if another delusion within the British public. If so many farmers are legitimately barely scraping by then a) we don't actually have 'food security' and consumers need to pay more and b) a hefty proportion of the next generation that inherit the the farms will just sell them anyway, why wouldn't you if you are sitting on an asset worth millions that you can only earning 20k a year from. Now, there will be farmers struggling but my guess is a lot are actually making a decent margin and can afford it.

It feels like every story about removal of exemptions and benefits (vat on private schools, farmers iht, wfa) only focuses on the few who will be hit a bit by it and not the many who can actually afford it.
I think a better way to close the loophole is to tax any profits if it's removed from agricultural use.

Punishing passing farms on to children seems a bad and unfair idea. I can see why they are pissed off.

Strikes me as another own goal by the govt too.