Countryside Alliance @CAupdates Chief Exec also fish, ducks, cricket, hounds, dogs & other country stuff tim-bonner(at)https://t.co/sb7p8qUJUa
Nov 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Two fundamental misunderstandings from the tax experts and lawyers jumping to the defence of the Chancellor’s changes to inheritance tax relief on agricultural property. The first is that assets equal wealth 🧵1/n
Assets be on a farm’s balance sheet are irrelevant if the primary aim of the business is simply to pass that asset on to the next generation. The nominal value of that asset has also been inflated by the use of agricultural property relief by non-farmers to avoid inheritance tax 2/n
Jan 2, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
OK, here we go. First the history of foxhunting with dogs, different to deer & hare hunting which are much older activities in a formal sense. The fox has always been in conflict with man and from early times people used dogs to control them above & below ground 1/
Fox and pest control would have been a specialist role in village life through the Middle Ages & specialist types of hound & terrier were developed through selective breeding. Hunting foxes also presumably became a community activity to protect livestock 2/
