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Got a tricky question about your farm business? Get advice from our team of experts. From a wide range of topics from finance to planning permission to tax queries, to staff issues, we cover it all in our Business Clinic.

If we haven’t tackled a question you have yet in our articles below, then send us your query in no more that 350 words to:

Business Clinic, Farmers Weekly, Mark Allen Group, 1st Floor, Chancery House, St Nicholas Way, Sutton, Surrey SM1 1JB. Alternatively email your question to FW-Businessclinic@markallengroup.com.

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Business Clinic: Who maintains trees next to utility cables?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Polly Ridgway, legal director in Thrings’ agricultural litigation team, advises on the…

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Business Clinic: Can I sell for a song to avoid inheritance tax?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Euan Fernie, a partner at accountant MHA, advises on the HMRC anti…

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Business Clinic: Advice on budgeting for farm system change

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Tom Hind, an associate with Carter Jonas Rural, advises on the consideration…

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Business Clinic: Can I put a turbine on green belt land?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Philippe Rottner, senior energy specialist with Carter Jonas, advises on the potential…

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Business Clinic: Impact of historic rights of way deadline loss

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here Richie Rees, senior associate in Thrings’ agricultural litigation team, advises on the…

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Business Clinic: Is farm a partnership asset or personal asset?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Neil Berry, tax partner at accountant MHA, advises on the importance of…

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Business Clinic: Lifting an agricultural occupancy condition

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Nick Curnock, associate at Carter Jonas, advises on the options for removing…

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Business Clinic: Succession options to consider post-Budget

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here Karen Perugini, a partner in Thrings’ succession and tax team, advises on…

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Business Clinic: Succession decisions raise family concerns

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Joe Spencer, a partner at accountant MHA, advises on succession issues aimed…

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Business Clinic: Valuing minority shareholding in company

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Sarah Dodds, a partner and head of agriculture at MHA, advises on…

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Business Clinic: Should I sell farm cottages or improve them?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Henry Platts-Martin, associate partner at Carter Jonas Rural, advises on what to…

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Business Clinic: Neither my father nor brother has a will

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here Ben Coulson, a partner in Thrings’ succession and tax team, advises on…

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