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Royal Highland Show: IHT based on 'false belief' that all farmers are rich and wealthy

Russell Findlay, Scottish Conservative Leader, said he believes changes to Inheritance Tax have been made based on the misconception that all farmers are 'rich and wealthy'

Chris Brayford
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Scottish Conservative Leader Russell Findlay said: "The spiteful family farm tax is based on a false belief that all farmers are rich and a strange socialist mindset to tax anything that moves."
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Scottish Conservative Leader Russell Findlay said: "The spiteful family farm tax is based on a false belief that all farmers are rich and a strange socialist mindset to tax anything that moves."

Seeing past the viewpoint that all farmers are 'wealthy landowners' is one of the main challenges food producers face in their fight to overturn the family farm tax. Scottish Conservative Leader Russell...

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