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Princess Anne visited the Argyllshire Gathering and Oban Games to celebrate 150 years of celebrating tradition in Argyll.

Potential land tax in Scotland ‘unacceptable’, says NFU >More in © Tim Scrivener A land value tax could be introduced in Scotland as part of the country’s ongoing reform journey. The proposals are included in the Land and property taxation in Scotland: Initial scoping of options for reform report, written by data analyst Alma Economics for the Scottish Land Commission. The commission was created under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 to instigate and assist change to benefit the country as a whole and, so far, has largely be...

WHO owns Scottish land - and what they do with it - looks likely to drive the political agenda in the years ahead THOSE WHO actively work the land to produce food should not have anything to fear from 'political agendas' relating to land ownership. So said NFU Scotland's president Andrew McCornick in reaction to the publication this week of a new report looking at 'options for reform' of Scotland's land property taxation system. However, there may well be cause for nervousness over the direction of the research, which was ordered by the Scottish Land Commission to examine how the benefi...

Farm leaders have hit out at new land tax proposals for Scotland which could lead to the loss of Agricultural Poprety Relief (APR).