MPs have asked for a one-year delay on the new inheritance tax changes while alternative schemes are explored to protect small family businesses.
Tractors lined streets in Aberdeen and across the UK as farmers protested against the changes announced in the Autumn Budget which would see inherited agricultural assets worth over £1million taxed at 20%.
Now, the BBC reports, a report from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Committee said the changes were made without "adequate consultation, impact assessment or affordability assessment".
It said the tax change would "threaten to affect the most vulnerable" but delaying its implementation until April 2027 would give those farmers more time to seek "appropriate professional advice".
The government insists the changes will only affect the wealthiest 500 farms each year, but the NFU and the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) predict that as many as 70,000 farms could be affected overall.
Efra committee chairman Alistair Carmichael said: "The government, however, seems to be dismissing farmers' concerns and ignoring the strength of feeling evidenced in the months of protests that saw tractors converge on Westminster and up and down the country."
A government spokesman told the BBC that under its changes three quarters of estates would continue to pay no inheritance tax at all, while the remaining quarter would "pay half the inheritance tax that most people pay".
He added that payments could be spread over 10 years, interest-free.