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Farmers’ inheritance tax may have an effect on 5 instances extra farms than Treasury stated, evaluation finds

By Editorial Board Published November 27, 2024 6 Min Read
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Farmers’ inheritance tax may have an effect on 5 instances extra farms than Treasury stated, evaluation finds

The brand new inheritance tax coverage may have an effect on as much as 5 instances extra farms than the Treasury initially stated, in line with new evaluation.

The federal government stated its plan to impose 20% inheritance tax on farms value greater than £1m will have an effect on 500 farms within the 2026-2027 monetary yr, based mostly on evaluation of previous claims.

Nonetheless, the Central Affiliation of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) has appeared on the numbers and located 2,500 farms might be affected annually.

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The group, which represents companies throughout UK agriculture, discovered as much as 75,000 particular person farms over a technology – which they outline as 30 years – might be affected by the tax.

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Farmers protested final week, saying the tax would imply the top of many household farms as a result of they must unload land to pay it.

Setting Secretary Steve Reed had beforehand promised he wouldn’t change inheritance tax for farmers.

Many have stated the federal government’s figures have been incorrect and greater than 500 household farms could be affected a yr.

The Nationwide Farmers’ Union (NFU) stated the true quantity is 2 thirds of farms of the UK’s 209,000 farms, whereas the Nation Land and Enterprise Affiliation (CLA) stated 70,000 farms could be affected.

However Mr Reed has insisted the determine is predicated on “raw data” and stated the Treasury had taken under consideration all attainable figures.

The Treasury stated its figures got here from knowledge on farms that had claimed Agricultural Property Aid (APR), in addition to those that claimed each APR and BPR – however not solely BPR.

Presently, to get 100% inheritance tax reduction farmers have to say APR for farmhouses, land and buildings, and BPR for equipment and livestock – however this may also be claimed for land and buildings.

What can farmers declare beneath APR and BPR?

Agricultural Property Aid (APR) and Enterprise Property Aid (BPR) are mechanisms farmers at present use to say 100% inheritance tax reduction.

Completely different facets of farms come beneath the 2 schemes, with some facets capable of be claimed beneath both.

APR:

Farmhouses utilized by farmers

Buildings used for agricultural functions equivalent to grain storage or to accommodate livestock

Land used for farming and rising in addition to woodland to assist farming, equivalent to woodland shelter belts

BPR:

Equipment, equivalent to tractors

Livestock

Farmshops

Vacation and industrial lets on farms

Buildings used for agricultural functions

Land used for farming

Not all farms have to say BPR

Mr Moody defined some farms should have farmhouses to be near their livestock, so should declare APR for the farmhouse and BPR for equipment.

However, not all have to say APR as not each farm features a farmhouse. That is as a result of some farmers, principally those that develop crops, don’t reside on the property – to allow them to simply declare BPR.

“Unless you’re trying to argue the value of a farmhouse, which these days can be quite high, it’s just convenient to claim BPR on the land and machinery.

“A landowner may place the farm beneath BPR purely for simplicity as a result of whether or not you claimed beneath APR or BPR has by no means mattered earlier than.

“If a family farm is structured as a company then they also would only claim BPR, which isn’t wrong to do.”

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Environment Secretary Steve Reed responds to o Jeremy Clarkson saying the government should "back down" on inheritance tax policy for farmers.

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‘Jeremy Clarkson is listening to incorrect knowledge’

How lengthy is a technology?

Mr Moody added authorities figures fail to think about that farms are sometimes handed down each 30 years, for instance from an 85-year-old who dies to their 55-year-old son or daughter.

“The government’s figures accept that the effect from introducing inheritance tax is over 75 years, they didn’t think about how long a generation is,” Mr Moody stated.

Due to spousal inheritance tax reduction, the federal government has stated a pair would have the ability to go on a farm value as much as £3m earlier than paying any inheritance tax. They stated as it’s payable over 10 years it is not going to be an enormous hit – one thing farmers disagree with.

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Farmer Fergus Howie

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Farmer explains how tax will hit him

“We have been clear since this change was announced that around 500 claims of Agricultural and Business Property Relief each year will be impacted – this is based off actual claims data – and even when inheritance tax does kick in, it is effectively at half the rate paid by others.

“It isn’t attainable to precisely infer inheritance tax legal responsibility from farm internet value figures as there are totally different circumstances affecting every farm, equivalent to who owns it, the character of possession, how many individuals personal it and the way affairs are deliberate.”

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