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Labour wants tax rises to fall on the ‘broadest shoulders’. The farmers furore shows why that’s so hard to achieve | Rafael Behr

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Agribusiness lobby groups say many more will be affected, potentially 70,000 .

Dispute over the numbers is largely a function of different ways of measuring the “impact” of a tax.

One dead farmer could bequeath assets to many people, not just a spouse and children.

All might be affected financially and emotionally by the prospect of a bill.

Starmer ’s electoral coalition is not so secure that he can afford to make too many sections of it irate.

That may have been justified as a strategy for winning power, but it leaves Reeves overly reliant on fiddly, precision-targeted revenue raids.

Each one carries a customised risk of aggravating some sectional interest group with lobbying power disproportionate to the number of people and sums involved.

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