Driving their £250,000 tractors that are 100% tax-deductible in the year of purchase (with cheap Red Diesel that is only available to farmers ) funded by the grants and subsidies that taxpayers cough up, in order to protest because they are being asked to pay half the rate of Inheritance Tax on 6 times the starting point for the rest of us, with a special allowance of 10 years to pay!
Entitled Fuckers, who are scroungingon an industrial scale.
They have so many special allowances and arrangements (such as the choice of 2 or 5 farmers tax averaging) that they will hardly ever pay income tax. With VAT they have the best of both Worlds being Zero-rated where they don't have to charge VAT but they can claim it back unlike you or I when we buy something.
If they don't like the special treatment they are now being offered for IHT the Government should just treat them like everyone else - £500K limit and 40% tax.
If they have to sell a field to pay it so be it, the field will still be farmed, just by someone else.
Nearly half the farmers in the country rent land rather than own it and they have to pay rent to landowners. Tenant farmers are not affected by this as they don't own the land, and they are the ones that need support, not the rich landowners.
If you own £3million of farmland and can't make enough money to pay a bit of IHT then you are either a shit farmer, a shit businessmen or more likely an out and out liar. If you can't make money when you have no rent to pay then why the fuck should you be supported by hard-pressed taxpayers?
