The ordinary rules for computing trading profits apply to farming and market gardening1. However, problems may arise in determining how to treat receipts in respect of the farming items given below.
Farming grants, subsidies and compensation payments
Detailed commentary on a variety of farming grants, subsidies and compensation payments (including in respect of tenant rights), and a table of various compensation receipts, is in B5.108. For commentary on compensation for compulsory slaughter of farm animals, see B5.111.
Sales of turf
Receipts from sales of turf are treated either as part of the farming receipts assessable as trade profits or, where there are no associated farming activities, as receipts of a property business arising from a right over land (namely, the right to take turf from the land)2.
In J W Ashmore Ltd3, the taxpayer company agreed to let contractors remove two-inch-thick turf from its farm at a price of £75 per acre. It was held that the profit was part of the farming trade because the fact that
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