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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Environment
Emily Beament

SHOCKING: Government defends farm tax changes as support for protests swells - What They Never Told You

The farming tax row continues to grow (James Manning/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Government has continued to defend changes to inheritance tax for farmers as support swells for planned protests next week.

And as the row on the introduction of taxes for farms worth more than £1 million shows no sign of abating, new figures from the Environment Department (Defra) showed falling farm incomes this year.

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