Councillors were debating a Conservative motion calling for the government to rethink the removal of inheritance tax exemptions for farmers.
But Tory members took exception to an amendment tabled by Lib Dem councillor Dan Boatright-Greene.
Angry exchanges followed, with multiple councillors raising points of order that were dismissed by chairman Tracey Onslow.
The debate and two named votes took so long that the council ran out of time to discuss four other notices of motion.
These included one calling for the farmers’ inheritance tax to be raised to £5 million and one asking the government to reconsider the increase in National Insurance contributions for employers.
Reacting to the amendment debate and the behaviour of councillors, Cllr Boatright-Greene said: “This is why people don’t vote. This sort of ridiculousness.”
Cllr Kit Taylor, introducing the farming motion, said: “This is a spiteful tax against people providing a vital service.”
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Cllr Adam Kent, cabinet member for economy, described inheritance tax as “abhorrent”.
“What the Labour government is doing to people in this country is downright evil,” he said. “Farmers, pensioners, businesses – everywhere you go, there’s an absolute attack.”
Cllr Richard Udall said: “Inheritance tax is important to fund public services and to create a more equal distribution of wealth. It is a good tax. However, in this instance, I believe the government are wrong.”
Cllr Dan Morehead said: “I’m not unsupportive of removing tax avoidance loopholes but this is a blunt policy.”
Cllr Nathan Desmond said: “Has a new government ever fallen so far, so fast as this Labour government?
“By removing agricultural inheritance tax exemptions, Labour has acted in bad faith and undermined farmers. It is too crude and simplistic.”
Cllr Marcus Hart, cabinet member for communities, said farmers were “next in line” for an attack by Labour following cuts to the winter fuel allowance.
The Lib Dem amendment was eventually defeated but councillors passed the original motion, which means the council’s chief executive Paul Robinson will write to Defra minister Steve Reed asking him to reconsider policies that place “undue strain” on family farms.
Earlier in the meeting, six farmers had spoken to councillors on the issue.
Josephine Parker, a fifth generation farmer from Martley, said her family may be asset rich on paper but is, in reality, cash poor.
“We could not afford to pay a tax bill on each death,” she said. “Inevitably, land would have to be sold, each death making the farm less and less viable until we reached a point we could no longer farm and we’d be forced to sell up.”
She said the policy is a “threat to national food security”, adding: “Please reverse the family farm tax.”