Jeremy Clarkson claims he never actually bought farm to avoid inheritance tax
Jeremy Clarkson claims he never actually bought farm to avoid inheritance tax
by BestButtons
Jeremy Clarkson claims he never actually bought farm to avoid inheritance tax
Jeremy Clarkson claims he never actually bought farm to avoid inheritance tax
by BestButtons
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> During his appearance at the protest, Clarkson was interviewed by the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire, who addressed previous comments he had made in 2021 in which he admitted avoiding inheritance tax was a “critical thing” in his decision to buy a farm.
> And back in 2010, Clarkson wrote on the Top Gear website that he had bought a farm because “land is a better investent than any bank can offer” and “the government doesn’t get any of my money when I die.”
> Now, in a new interview with the Times, the 64-year-old has claimed he tax benefits were not the real reason he brought the farm, which has since become the subject of his hugely popular Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm.
> He told the publication: “I never did admit why I really bought it.”
> Clarkson claimed the real reason he purchased the land was so he could have somewhere to go shooting for game.
At least he doesn’t try to claim he always wanted to be a farmer.
How can you be a journalist and not simply repeat his words back to him that prove he’s completely contradicting himself?
It’s such an easy ‘gotcha’ moment.
I like his TV shows but he’s really going all over the place on this one
I’d rather he was just honest – yes it was a tax dodge and yes he’s been caught out by a government closing that loophole
I guess he opened a discussion about it not being as targeted as it could be, but the problem is his past actions and statements get in the way of having that open discussion
I wonder if it would be best if he stopped being the face of that movement and let an actual proper farmer take over instead
I can easily believe it wasn’t the only reason, or even the main reason. It was certainly __a__ reason though.
‘Obsolete car oaf lies again’. – article summed up in 5 words.
(Cap doff to Stuart Lee for the insult)
What next, ‘Clarkson never said he never lied about buying a farm to avoid inheritance tax?’
If he wasn’t doing it to avoid inheritance tax, why is he campaigning against the tax.
Liar. Either back then or now.
These were his words: “I have bought a farm. There are many sensible reasons for this: Land is a better investment than any bank can offer. The government doesn’t get any of my money when I die. And the price of the food that I grow can only go up.”
While independent people roll around in the dirt about inheritance tax on farmland, did you know that the Mormon Church is one of the largest owners of farmland in the UK? In fact I believe they’re in the top 50 largest owners of UK land. They’ve been buying the stuff all over the country. Religions of course pay no inheritance tax on their holdings.
Clarkson is a bloated egomaniac, but he’s very small fry compared to some of the people buying up great chunks of land, who will never pay a penny. I do wish the Government had closed that up, Mormonism has no place anywhere, but especially in Europe.
He’s just trying to walk back on his previous admission because it is (quite rightly) being used as a stick to beat him with. He of course used it as a tax dodge and is now throwing his toys of out of the pram.
So after all the money he made why is he bugged by a tax?
Clarkson probably: “I may have said that I was avoiding inheritance tax, but you should all know by now I have a 100MPH mouth and a 10MPH brain”
He literally said so in an interview. Is he stupid? Does he think we are stupid?
The farmers must be well pleased the ‘more power’ guy off the telly has wandered up and done a runner with their narrative
Disingenuous prick. He wrote those words himself and then said it was only written because people wouldnt like the real reason which was that he wanted to shoot.
The same guy who had to apologise about writing about Meghan markle.
Yes J, we all believe that you would hold back what you really think.
“how dare you use my own words about why I bought it at an inconvenient time”
If he was just honest about the whole thing I really don’t think people would have cared much.
This is the worst spokesman this movement could have.
I can absolutely believe that this will cause farms not to be passed onto children of farmers to continue to the business.
But if the point of closing the loophole is to stop tax avoidance, and your highest profile spokesman is saying he had a farm purely to avoid tax, then that’s a bad look, isn’t it.
It nullifies the protest. It gives the government an easy headline. They don’t even need to highlight the hypocrisy. They can just leave it to do all the work for them.
He’s always been an absolutely moronic ape. Don’t expect anything of substance from him.
He said he bought it for inheritance tax in the first episode of Clarksons Farm.
From his track record, I’m surprised he didn’t try and punch the journalist.
Why is he lying? Jeremy Clarkson said he bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax back in 2010 and 2021
Makes me respect Jimmy Carr a bit more because he at least admitted it all when he got caught and took the backlash on the chin, especially on 8 Out Of 10 Cats.
It really is amazing how the rich have got the poor to fight for them.
Even in death this miserable wanker still doesn’t want to give back to a society that gave him everything. Why do we support these pigs?
Of course he does. It’s not like there any evidence, authored by one J Clarkson.
Why not let your children inherit the farm now Mr Clarkson? I’m sure you will live for 7 years and then there is no tax due
The same applies to all these other farmers, the old generation could still work the farm they just can’t own in until the day they die.
Or am I missing something as to why farmers can’t do that? I have quite wealthy family members who are in the bracket of IHT and they all passed everything of worth to their kids years ago, proper planning and IHT is not an issue. Why can’t farmers do the same as everyone else?
Jeremy Clarkson is a worthless, tax-dodging hypocrite.
> He continued: “We [Private Eye] have been fairly consistent in supporting farmers but our correspondent says, in this case, very few farms are affected by inheritance tax.
When Ian Hislop and Private Eye are defending the government, it’s probably time to believe.
Listen, I love Clarksons Farm and it entertains me. It’s shown me a lot about the struggles farmers face (I’m referring to Kaleb and the other farmers explaining how much of a struggle it is) and just generally getting a look at the cost and maintenance side of things.
But I 100% recall hearing from his own mouth, that he brought the farm as a tax dodge.
Jeremy cuntson and nigel fuckface are the same personality.
Wants to pretend he’s one of the lads and not the upper classes whilst fucking everyone else over.
It’s a tax dodge for him so he can get fucked with his fake rhetoric and desperate pr attempts to rehabilitate his image by using real farmers as his new “bros”.
So to avoid to sound like a liar he says that was formerly a liar?
The gist of it is he didn’t actually buy it to avoid IHT but so he could have land to do shooting, because apparently saying you bought land to do a spot of shooting is less posh and privileged than saying you bought land to avoid IHT.
He really doesn’t help himself. His character is funny on TV and on paper when he tries to wiggle his way through a lie but given this is reality it’s actually quite insulting to do one thing under the guise of another. The farmers don’t need him as their spokesperson.
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