Mims Davies MP stands up for Farmers and encourages residents to sign Stop The Farm Tax Petition
Labour’s family farm tax is going to be devastating for the local farmers here in East Grinstead, Uckfield and the villages. Let alone the thousands of farms beyond our constituency. Families that have farmed will have to sell up as a result.
At a time when we need to grow more food in Britain, we need to buy more British food, how can Labour justify this and think this will help.
Please see the petition below to sign:
Mims also said in her recent speech during day 2 of the Budget Debate:
I represent a rural constituency, and it is clear that local farmers will be hit by the changes to inheritance tax—we just need to read the messages from the NFU today. I am afraid that the subterfuge and the hoodwinking of the farming community will be felt not just by Opposition Members, but across everybody’s communities.
I recently read out in Westminster Hall the words of a local farmer, whose concerns were purely about business confidence at that point. The same farmer wrote to me again this week—I remind the House that farmers are working people, and they work 365 days and 52 weeks a year—to say:
“My family’s farm and estate are currently economically viable but there is no chance that they would ever produce sufficient cash flow to make it possible for us to cover any significant amounts of inheritance tax. If we are struck by excessive taxation we will no longer be able to produce 7,000,000 litres of milk per annum or timber for the nation. The heritage of 200 years could be gone.”
Farmers across my constituency are stunned. This is a hammer blow for family businesses, as the shadow Chancellor said, and we will oppose the Budget. It does not fix the foundations; it is a set of dangerous ground works.
