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Agriculture & Estates team

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Our Agriculture & Estates team understands farming from a personal and professional perspective, taking into account that farming is more than a business, but often a whole generational way of life. We listen to the needs of each farming family and often work with them generation after generation to ensure that we can tailor advice to meet their, and their successors, wishes and aspirations.

Caroline Dowding
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    • Partner, Head of Agriculture and Estates
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Farming son who claimed that he was promised the farm

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Yet another farming case has made the headlines. Williams v Williams 2022 was heard in the High Court last month. About the Williams v Williams case: In this case, a challenge was made by one farming son...

Farming families and proprietary estoppel

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Proprietary estoppel cases are becoming increasingly common in the farming sector, often with one child, rightly or wrongly, believing that they will inherit the entire farm on the death of their parents. Some children would have worked on the farm their...

Potential changes to Business Property Relief

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In 2019, the Office of Tax Simplification (“OTS”) carried out a review of UK Inheritance Tax (“IHT”) as set out in Katie Gibson-Green’s blog “ Proposed changes to IHT and how that affects farmers ”. One of the...

How might changes to CGT affect farmers and land owners?

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Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is payable on any chargeable gains made on the disposal (or deemed disposal) of capital assets. The Finance Act 2019 came into force on 12 February 2019 and implements changes to the current CGT regime taking effect from 6 April 2020,...