In this week's budget Labour announced agriculture tax changes that could force family farms out of business.
NFU Scotland said that “changes to Inheritance Tax and Agricultural Property Relief will affect the liquidity on succession for farms above the £1 million threshold set, hitting many family farms, regardless of size or type."
It makes no sense whatsoever to target family farms for tax hikes.
Labour's tax changes will be devastating news to hard working farmers who just want to pass on their farms to their children and will see the demise of hundreds of traditional working family farms who provide food for our plates, we may even see a rise in food prices.
I will campaign hard against this harmful family farm tax, which just shows how little Labour understands or cares about rural areas like ours.
