BIM55315 - Farming quotas: purchase and sale of quota

Quotas may be transferable between farmers by outright sale and purchase. As the quota is normally a fixed capital asset of a farmer's trade (see BIM55305), such transactions normally have no Income Tax consequences for the farmers concerned. In particular, there can be no question of farmers who have bought quota claiming a deduction for the amount of any expenditure such as levies or leasing charges which they would have incurred if they had not bought it. As regards Capital Gains Tax, see CG77701 onwards.