Agricultural Property Relief

In a joint letter to the Chancellor, farming unions warned how changes to APR could have a significant impact on tenant farmers, family farms, domestic food security and environmental delivery

The Prime Minister has described tomorrow's Budget as ‘painful', and the prevailing view is that it will focus on capital taxes. Sarah Wray, senior associate at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys, explains what you can expect

The growing speculation around a cut to the agriculture budget and a potential review of APR, NFU president Tom Bradshaw said was ‘incredibly concerning’

"There will be no family farms left"

Ahead of next week's parliament-defining budget, speculation has been mounting about whether the Government will scrap or cap agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR)

In a Westminster Hall debate on October 17, MPs from rural constituencies laid out concerns for the future of family farms and food production if changes were to be made

"The unequivocal case for an increased, ring-fenced and multi-annual UK farming budget was made clear once again"

The CLA said more than 27,000 farm businesses could be impacted by an inheritance tax reduction, potentially leading to 190,000 people out of work

NFU president Tom Bradshaw warned the Farming Minister that in light of the £358 million pound underspend of the farming budget, Defra was a department ‘very close to failure' if it was not careful

The Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner attended the Farm Tenancy Forum for the first time since being elected into Government