Making the same error as the Treasury – using old figures and only accounting for one half of the capped threshold…
Guido noticed that Verify has also been quietly making changes to its main farm tax “fact-check.” It gets worse than confusing hectares for acres…
After Guido pointed out that Verify refers to senior Labour activist Dan Neidle an “independent tax expert” the article has been quietly changed to call him “founder of the independent Tax Policy Associates.” More egregiously Verify has completely cut Neidle’s outlandish claim that “the number of actual farms affected is likely to be below 500 per year”
https://order-order.com/2024/11/20/bbc-verify-quietly-changes-farm-tax-fact-check-amid-political-bias-row/