{"id":221695,"date":"2025-10-18T02:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221695\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:46:17","slug":"farmers-plan-day-of-unity-inheritance-tax-tractor-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221695\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers plan \u2018Day of Unity\u2019 inheritance tax tractor protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farmers are preparing to stage a nationwide \u201cDay of Unity\u201d on Monday 24 November, in protest against the government\u2019s proposed inheritance tax reforms.<\/p>\n

Organisers say the changes threaten to devastate family-run farms, many of which have been passed down through generations and rely heavily on existing tax reliefs to remain viable.<\/p>\n

And the concerns go beyond individual families, with farming groups warning that the changes could have serious knock-on effects on the wider rural economy and pose a long-term risk to Britain\u2019s food security.<\/p>\n

See also: Farmer protest greets Starmer and Labour in Liverpool<\/a><\/p>\n

The co-ordinated day of action will see tractor go-slow protests between 10am and 4pm across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Organisers say the demonstrations are designed to avoid peak travel hours to minimise disruption to the public, while making a strong statement ahead of Labour\u2019s Autumn Budget on Wednesday 26 November.<\/p>\n

The initiative is spearheaded by a coalition of grassroots farming groups including All Farmers, Farmers For Fairness, Farmers To Action, Midland Farmers, East Anglian Farmers Unite, Welsh lobby group Digon Yw Digon (Enough is Enough), Kent Farmers, West Country Farmers, Berkshire Farming and Scottish Farmers.<\/p>\n

Last month, the \u201cTrailer of Truth\u201d campaign toured rural communities nationwide, spotlighting the farming industry\u2019s growing concerns. The tour culminated in a high-profile protest outside the Labour party conference in Liverpool on 28 September.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want the protests to be peaceful and to resemble tractor charity runs,\u201d said a spokesman. \u201cWe want to raise awareness of the devastating impact the family farm tax will have on farm businesses and the wider rural economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the build-up to the Day of Unity, organisers are calling on local demonstration leads to submit details of location, meeting time, and key nearby sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A video shared on Facebook (below) features farmers voicing their concerns.<\/p>\n

Minister reaffirms policy<\/p>\n

Treasury minister James Murray doubled down on the government\u2019s plans to impose a 20% levy on inherited agricultural assets worth \u00a31m or more from next April when he appeared on GB News yesterday (15 October).<\/p>\n

Asked to comment on media speculation that the government planned to increase the IHT threshold to \u00a35m, Mr Murray said: \u201cThat policy was settled. We announced that at the Budget last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think the approach that we took was a fair and proportionate approach where it still allowed owners of assets to have \u00a31m without being subject to inheritance tax and at a 50% relief above that level.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a fair way forward. We\u2019re focused on the next budget and not reopening discussions of the past one.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Day of unity protest expressed great disappointment at the minister\u2019s comments. \u201cFarmers have not gone away, this is just the start,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farmers are preparing to stage a nationwide \u201cDay of Unity\u201d on Monday 24 November, in protest against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-221695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}