What are the tax implications? Renting land for a solar farm is a commercial lease and is not an agricultural use, so Agricultural Property Relief from inheritance tax may be lost.
In this article, Nicola Parkinson and Kathryn Brook, specialist lawyers from Walker Morris’ Tax and Infrastructure & Energy teams respectively, highlight potential tax issues associated with solar farm developments.
Renting land for a solar farm is a commercial lease and is not an agricultural use, so Agricultural Property Relief from inheritance tax may be lost. Transferring ownership of the land to another individual or trading entity before any development starts may be worth considering, to minimise the tax implications, but seek professional advice.
The large-scale generation of electricity by solar power is a recent development in the UK, certainly post-1995. Consequently, the lease granted to the generating company will be a tax post-August 1995 lease. The necessary conditions to obtain relief at the rate of 100% are described, thus, in s116 IHT Act 1984: ‘Section 116.
While land held in a discretionary trust will be subject to ten-year anniversary IHT charges at a maximum of 6 per cent, the tax can be paid in instalments over a ten-year period and the higher income streams from the solar farm generally mean that trustees are in a position to accumulate income to use for payment of the tax.
The solar PV arrays do present particular problems. Obviously, ‘solar farming’ is not farming as understood by the tax system. Farming is defined, for income tax, as ‘the occupation of land for the purposes of husbandry’ (s996 Income Tax Act 2007). This definition is generally used for the purposes of other taxes such as CGT and IHT.
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