Can FW’s Business Clinic experts solve your farming problem?
© GNP Business Clinic is a free service for readers, offering expert advice on legal, tax, finance, farm and land management issues from law firm Thrings, accountant Albert Goodman and land agent Carter Jonas.
Land and property bring common concerns. For example, partnership matters including disputes often feature, along with many other family issues, such as how to protect farming assets in case of divorce. Succession and inheritance, rights of way and access, along with neighbour disputes, are the basis of many of the queries.
Farm tax and finance is becoming increasingly complex and the subjects covered in Business Clinic range from day-to-day bookkeeping and VAT queries to complex tax planning for succession, inheritance and how to achieve the correct structure for both farming and diversified businesses.
See also: Readers’ questions answered in Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic
On the farm and estate management front, farm and land sales issues, planning permission, business rates, renewable energy developments and tenancy matters are just a sample of the many subjects covered.
A quick glance at past questions on fwi.co.uk/business-clinic shows the breadth and depth of the advice offered.
The questions and answers are published in the final issue of Farmers Weekly each month, so other readers can benefit from the answers to another farming family’s query. No names or other identifying information is published.
All past questions can be seen online at fwi.co.uk/business-clinic.
Do you have a question for the panel?
If you think the Business Clinic expert panel may be able to help with a question relating to your family or farming business, send an outline, ideally in no more than 300 words, of the problem or issue. It usually helps to also have a bit of background about the farm type and size.
Send your enquiry to Business Clinic, Farmers Weekly, 1st Floor, Chancery House, St Nicholas Way, Sutton, Surrey SM1 1JB, and include a telephone number. You can also email fw-businessclinic@markallengroup.com
