What the machines got wrong · Made up
The UK Treasury's own impact assessment for recent APR reforms estimates roughly 27% of claims involve minimal or no active farming.
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Why it is wrong
No such estimate exists. The Treasury and HMRC papers on reforming Agricultural Property Relief break the claims down by value — showing how much of the relief goes to the largest estates — but publish nothing on how many claimants farm the land. The debate then does arithmetic on it twice, reaching £297 million in one place and £350 million in another from the same 27%, and a third participant adopts it as the baseline for policy design.
Source: HM Treasury / HMRC, «Reforming Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief» (2024)
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