Tractor tax: 'Government hit everyone when they didn't mean to'

Thousands of farmers have protested in central London over changes to inheritance tax laws.

It means they will now have to pay tax when they hand their businesses on to family members.

Labour says the change is aimed at stopping the wealthy buying farms as a "tax dodge".

But farmer Fergus Howie told Sky News ministers had set the tax threshold too low, unintentionally pulling those who were not playing the system into paying.

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