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At Farm and Country Finance, we like to pass on a bit of food for thought. As the economy recovers, here are a few tax insights to give you some ideas to think about and to talk to your accountant about. 1. Panic early – do not leave long term tax planning until it is […]
In any business, cash is king but it is more so in a business where stock takes longer to turn into sales such as in farming. Farm and Country Finance often sees cases where banks have been willing to let an overdraft become core borrowing which should never happen. We can arrange farm finance to replace these. […]
It will not come as a surprise, to many of you, that there is a legion of persons out there looking to get money off you for nothing; so beware of the scammers. In recent times, many companies have become aware that some of their shareholders have received unsolicited telephone calls or other forms of […]
One of the questions any customer should ask is ‘Why should we use Farm and Country Finance to arrange our farm finance or agricultural mortgage?’ Of course, people have a choice and sometimes, irrespective of what we and our testimonials say, they decide to go somewhere else. It may surprise you how many of these […]
We have been receiving a number of enquiries about farm bridging finance. Some of these have come from farmers who are sitting tenants, wanting to buy their farm from a landlord. For example, the Duchy of Lancaster has been selling off a lot of land in 2011. Often there is a huge gain to be […]
Back at the beginning of August this year we published our post ‘Call us and save £70,000.’ This explained a lot about farm finance and especially bridging finance for a farm. We compared the way we handled this case with the way another company handled it and the savings we created. We said that the other […]
One of our competitors has recently changed the term bridging finance to opportunity finance. Presumably, the term opportunity would imply that there is some benefit to the customer. Our competitor appears to be a slick operation – on the day after you call you’ll get a visit and during this visit an assessment of your business […]
Only in America you may say but what a delightful story this is. It brings into focus the utter incompetence of the bank in question and warms the cockles of the heart. It also says that when the bank owes you money you should go for it with all guns blazing, because that’s what they would […]
Gold is rare and hence valuable Hard to believe, I know, but the entire Universe is made up of 118 known elements (at May 2011). Of these gold is an extremely rare metal; its average concentration is 0.005 parts per million within the Earth’s crust and throughout the World there is between 120,000 to 140,000 tonnes of this […]