In 2024, the circular economy sectors supported almost 559,000 jobs across the UK, generating more than £53 billion in GVA. WRAP's latest examination – updating its 2019 assessment – shows the ...
The Guidelines respond to growing and competing demands on land, soil and water resources, helping countries balance demands from agriculture, urbanization and infrastructure with conservation, ...
National Sheep Association (NSA) believes today's Budget gives the UK's sheep farmers little to build on. A handful of targeted cost measures will help some businesses. There is nothing to rebuild ...
A £25,000 annual inheritance-tax instalment would equal around half the average annual Farm Business Income of an English cereal farm and more than 60% for grazing livestock farms, a comparison using ...
"The concern remains that some farming and business families could face significant inheritance tax liabilities without a straightforward way of funding them as their value is tied up in assets not ...
The Drinking Water Inspectorate, Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and Ofwat have today published the first Water Industry Performance Insights report. The four regulators have brought their ...
The Government and Environment Agency continue to act to protect water supplies as most of the country remains in drought despite recent rainfall. Water companies in the areas of severe drought have ...
Opinion
Welcome relief for farmers, but family businesses still face uncertainty over inheritance tax
"While the extension of the red diesel duty cut until July 2027 will be welcomed by farmers, it offers only short-term relief. More needs to be done to address the longer-term challenges facing family ...
"On Stamp Duty Land Tax, the Government has agreed that people paying rent on residential tenancies should not be liable for SDLT on that rent. The same principle should apply to farm tenants paying ...
Anyone investing in machinery or other capital assets will enjoy an increase in the first-year capital allowance, from 40% to 50%. But this has been funded by a reduction in the writing down allowance ...
Karen Betts, Chief Executive, The Food and Drink Federation (FDF), said: “This Budget offers nothing to ease the pressures food and drink manufacturers are under. Instead, one of the Chancellor’s ...
Phil Hall, Ports Director - Mersey Ports at Peel Ports, said: "Today's Budget confirms what fertiliser importers have been planning for, which is lower tariffs from late November ...
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