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National Farmers Union Day of Unity in Telford
Shropshire Star
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25/01/2025
National Farmers Union Day of Unity in Lawley, Telford at Morrisons.
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Edward Garrett, I'm County Advisor for the National Farmers Union and I also run a small farm in Telford.
00:05
So we're at Morrison's in Lawley in Telford, we're here to talk about what we do in the county, for the county,
00:12
the produce that we grow in the county, and we're also here to talk about the tax that the government is trying to impose on us.
00:18
Okay, it's not about us not wanting to pay tax, all farms pay an awful lot of tax.
00:24
This is about a badly thought out method to come in that will only destroy businesses.
00:31
So when somebody dies, most farms don't have enough money to pay this tax, so they'll have to sell off parts of their business.
00:38
So the business becomes not viable, which means they'll pay less tax.
00:41
So it's just not been thought through. The Office of Budget Responsibility now agree with us,
00:46
so we're hoping that the government will listen and they realise what they've thought through is not going to work
00:52
and will actually not achieve what they wanted.
00:55
We are a very tight-knit industry. In the county of Shropshire we've got 10,000 people that work directly involved in the county
01:02
and that's not involving the people that sell tractors, that is directly involved with farming.
01:06
And we're so proud of what we do, the produce we work, we produce, the jobs we give, the environmental work.
01:15
People forget, we look after three and a half thousand miles of footpaths in the county.
01:20
We look after 10,000 hectares of trees in the county. No one else does that, that's what we do.
01:26
And we're proud of this and we just feel that we're being totally let down by the government
01:30
with this inheritance tax proposal, which will only mean businesses have to be broken up.
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