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</span></div></div> </header><div class="ctx_content p402_premium" data-type="article-body"><div class="clearfix hR new-style"><div class="photo changeSpace"><p class="withoutCaption"><picture><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.avif?r=1732379222904" media="screen and (min-width:10000px)"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.webp?r=1732379222904" media="screen and (min-width:10000px)"><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.jpg?r=1732379222904" media="screen and (min-width:10000px)"><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/674x400/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.avif?r=1732379222904" media="screen and (min-width:100000px)"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/674x400/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.webp?r=1732379222904" media="screen and (min-width:100000px)"><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/674x400/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.jpg?r=1732379222904" media="screen and (min-width:100000px)"><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/940x/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.avif?r=1732379222904" media="screen and (min-width:1200px)"><source 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src="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.jpg?r=1732379222904" class="zoomEnabled" data-img="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.jpg?r=1732379222904" alt="Jeremy Clarkson at a farmers Protest Against Agricultural Inheritance Tax Changes in London" title="Jeremy Clarkson at a farmers Protest Against Agricultural Inheritance Tax Changes in London" width="590" height="393"></picture></p><span class="newsCaption">Jeremy Clarkson has shared his 'real' motivation for buying an Oxfordshire farm in 2008 <span class="caption">(Image: Getty)</span><span class="magnifier" data-img="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Jeremy-Clarkson-has-shared-his-real-motivation-for-buying-an-Oxfordshire-farm-in-2008-5783720.jpg?r=1732379222904"></span></span></div><div class="text-description"><p><a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" title="Jeremy Clarkson" href="/latest/jeremy-clarkson">Jeremy Clarkson</a> has lifted the lid on his real motivation for buying a <a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" title="Farming" href="/latest/farming">farm</a>, saying he thought it would be a “better PR story if I said I bought it to avoid <a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" title="Inheritance tax" href="/latest/inheritance-tax">paying tax</a>”.</p><p>The man behind <a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" title="Clarkson's Farm" href="/latest/clarksons-farm">Clarkson’s Farm</a>, Amazon Prime’s runaway hit TV series, defied doctors’ orders to protest against changes to agricultural inheritance tax brought by the Labour government on Tuesday, taking to the streets of London alongside <a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" href="/news/politics/1977726/Farmer-protest-London-live">thousands of fellow farmers</a>.</p><div id="ad-vip-article"><div id="div-gpt-ad-vip"></div></div><div id="mantis-recommender-top-placeholder"></div><p data-mce-linkchecker-status="valid">Clarkson told the Times in 2021 that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in his decision to buy land. He also wrote in a post on the Top Gear website in 2010: “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.”</p><p>Addressing these comments in a new interview with the Times, the former Top Gear presenter said: “I never did admit why I really bought it.</p><div id="ovp-primis" class="ovp-primis-h251"> <script>const loadOvpScript=()=>{let el=document.createElement('script');el.setAttribute('src','https://live.primis.tech/live/liveView.php?s=118222&playerApiId=v118222');document.getElementById('ovp-primis').appendChild(el)};window.top.addEventListener('primisPlayerInit',e=>{try{if(e.detail&&e.detail.playerApiId==="v118222"){if(window.document.getElementsByClassName('jwplayer')[0]){e.detail.float('disable')}}}catch(e){}});window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',()=>{setTimeout(()=>{if(typeof flagTcfLoaded!=='undefined'&&flagTcfLoaded===!0){loadOvpScript();ExpressApp.Log('[Load] OVP flagTcfLoaded',new Date())}else{document.addEventListener("tcfLoaded",()=>{loadOvpScript();ExpressApp.Log('[Load] OVP tcfLoaded',new Date())})}},1500)})</script> </div><p>“I wanted to have a shoot - I was very naive. I just thought it would be a better PR story if I said I bought it to avoid paying tax.”</p><div id="taboola-ad"></div></div><div class="text-description dont-miss"><p> <strong> READ MORE </strong> <strong> <a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" href="/showbiz/tv-radio/1979235/bbc-question-time-audience-members"> Question Time audience member slammed for savage comeback to Labour's tax plan </a> [LATEST] </strong></p></div><div class="text-description"><p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that combined business and agricultural assets worth above £1 million would be subject to 50% inheritance tax relief at an effective rate of 20% from April 2025.</p><p>It marked a departure from Agricultural Property Relief (APR), a policy designed to reduce the tax burden faced by farmers to reduce the likelihood of selling income sources to cover the costs. Assets worth less than £1 million still won’t have to pay inheritance tax.</p><p>Despite vocally opposing the tax changes, Clarkson told the newspaper that he doesn’t want to be the public face of the movement, saying: “It should be led by farmers.”</p><p>He said he doesn’t consider himself to be a farmer but feels his job is to “report on farming” and shine a light on rural poverty in the industry.</p></div><div class="text-description dont-miss"><p> <strong> Don't miss... </strong> <br> <strong> <a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" href="/news/politics/1979729/uk-foreign-farmers-money-inheritance-tax"> POLL: Should UK stop sending money to foreign farmers? </a> [LATEST] </strong> <br> <strong> <a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" href="/news/politics/1979460/keir-starmers-local-radio-grilling-bbc-interviews"> Keir Starmer's 45 minutes of humiliation in six brutal BBC radio interviews </a> [LATEST] </strong> <br> <strong> <a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" href="/news/politics/1979155/Labour-deny-tractor-tax-uturn"> Row as Labour denies any plans to u-turn over tractor tax despite media reports </a> [LATEST] </strong></p></div><div class="photo changeSpace"><p class="withoutCaption"><picture><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.avif?r=1732379222931" media="screen and (min-width:10000px)"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.webp?r=1732379222931" media="screen and (min-width:10000px)"><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.jpg?r=1732379222931" media="screen and (min-width:10000px)"><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/674x400/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.avif?r=1732379222931" media="screen and (min-width:100000px)"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/674x400/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.webp?r=1732379222931" media="screen and (min-width:100000px)"><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/674x400/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.jpg?r=1732379222931" media="screen and (min-width:100000px)"><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/940x/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.avif?r=1732379222931" media="screen and (min-width:1200px)"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/940x/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.webp?r=1732379222931" media="screen and (min-width:1200px)"><source type="image/jpeg" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/940x/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.jpg?r=1732379222931" media="screen and (min-width:1200px)"><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.avif?r=1732379222931" media="screen"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.webp?r=1732379222931" media="screen"><img src="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.jpg?r=1732379222931" class="zoomEnabled" data-img="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.jpg?r=1732379222931" alt="The Diddly Squat Farm Shop, Chadlington, Oxfordshire, England" title="The Diddly Squat Farm Shop, Chadlington, Oxfordshire, England" width="590" height="393" loading="lazy"></picture></p><span class="newsCaption">Clarkson owns a farm and farm shop in rural Oxfordshire <span class="caption">(Image: Getty)</span><span class="magnifier" data-img="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/1200x712/secondary/Clarkson-owns-a-farm-and-farm-shop-in-rural-Oxfordshire-5783729.jpg?r=1732379222931"></span></span></div><div class="text-description"><p>“One of the problems we have on the show is we’re not showing the poverty either, because obviously on Diddly Squat, there isn’t any poverty," he explained.</p><p>“But trust me, there is absolute poverty. I’m surrounded by farmers. I’m not going out for dinner with James Dyson. It’s people with 200 acres, 400 acres. Way past Rachel Reeves’ threshold. 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people who need to be better off, who’ve really struggled over recent years.</p><p>“We’re for everybody who wants to and needs to rely on the NHS, which is on its knees, and we’ve got to pick it up and we will and get those waiting lists down.</p><div id="mantis-recommender-placeholder"></div><p>“We’re for the people who absolutely need somewhere safe and secure to live that they can afford. 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