Tax Planning for Farm and Land Diversification

Author:   Julie Butler
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition:   4th Revised edition
ISBN:  

9781780439792


Pages:   592
Publication Date:   28 January 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Tax Planning for Farm and Land Diversification


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This well respected title examines traditional farming and diversification in the light of tax and planning procedures. It explores the current trend to diversify away from pure food production, and the turn toward alternative land use for the purpose of profitable enterprise. It also covers forms of tax planning that are necessary to cope with the upheavals facing all those in farming communities. This new edition picks up on a number of important legislative developments and new cases since the last edition was published in 2011 including the following: - Loss claim restriction to 25% - Farmhouse update – Golding and Hanson - The demise of the corporate partner - More impact of Permitted Development Rights and developing buildings - ATED and the farmhouse – the implications of the lowering of the ATED threshold on farmhouses held in companies - Repairs – impact of Pratt, Hopegear and Cairnsmill cases which all address the question of whether expenditure on the farm is revenue or capital expenditure - CAP Reform update – movement from the Single Payment Scheme to the Basic Payment Scheme and the `Active Farmer’ criteria - Guidance on the new permitted development rights rules that came into force in April 2014 allowing the conversion of farm buildings into up to three residential properties without going through the full planning process - Options for farmers following moves by HMRC to deny APR in situations where farmers have not been actively involved in farming in the two years before death. - Guidance on Associated Disposal rules for partnership advantages and achieving entrepreneurs’ relief - Importance of BPR – analysis of the Zetland vs HMRC case - Capital allowances and the farm buildings ~ maximising the claim AIA (Annual Investment Allowance Claim) at £500k - Guidance on the need for robust partnership agreements with reference to Ham vs Ham

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Author:   Julie Butler
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Professional
Edition:   4th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781780439792


ISBN 10:   1780439792
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   28 January 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1 Farming and the need for diversification 2 Diversification - alternative land use, grants and impact on the basic tax planning 3 Wills 4 Protecting the tax position of the farmhouse 5 Protecting the farm's assets 6 Diversification - the reality 7 Tax planning for fixed assets and stock incorporating the phasing out of quota 8 To incorporate or not to incorporate? 9 Planning for VAT 10 The `reluctant' and `lifestyle' farmer 11 Share farming, contract farming, farm business tenancies and other farming business agreements 12 Hobby and lifestyle farming and use of farming losses 13 Planning the best use APR and BPR for inheritance tax 14 Planning property disposals tax efficiently 15 Farmland and buildings - the letting activity 16 Divorce and farming 17 Trusts 18 Miscellaneous

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Julie Butler FCA has been qualified for over 30 years as a chartered accountant. She is married to a farmer and owns farm and woodland herself so understands the issues of farmland and diversification at a very practical level. She has formed her own firm of chartered accountants, Butler & Co, which acts for a large amount of the farming and equine industry and lectures widely on the subjects surrounding farm diversification

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