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	Podcast:		Farming Today
	Episode:		19/02/2025 - Inheritance tax row, bottom trawling in MPAs and NI Land Use Framework
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:13:50
	Publish Date:		2025-02-19 06:00:00
	Description:		Farming leaders have said they left a much-anticipated meeting with the Treasury with their blood "boiling", claiming the Government has "shut the door" on any rethink of planned changes to inheritance tax on farms. It follows months of protests over plans for inherited agricultural assets worth more than a million pounds to be taxed at 20% from April next year. MPs have been debating calls to ban bottom trawling in England's Marine Protected Areas. Bottom trawling is a method of fishing where weighted nets are dragged along the seabed to gather things like scallops, sole and plaice. And a working group has been set up by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission to discuss how a Land Use Framework for Northern Ireland might be developed and implemented. We meet one of the group members to discuss how much difference it could make. Presented by Steffan Messenger Produced by Heather Simons
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