Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

876 Meaning of “farming” and related expressions

(1) In this Act “farming” means the occupation of land wholly or mainly for the purposes of husbandry, but does not include market gardening (see subsection (5)).

(2) Husbandry includes (for example)—

(a) hop growing, and

(b) the breeding and rearing of horses and the grazing of horses in connection with those activities.

(3) For the purposes of this Act the cultivation of short rotation coppice is regarded as farming and not as forestry.

(4) In this Act “woodlands” does not include land on which short rotation coppice is cultivated.

(5) In this Act “market gardening” means the occupation of land as a garden or nursery for the purpose of growing produce for sale.

(6) For the purposes of this section “short rotation coppice” means a perennial crop of tree species planted at high density, the stems of which are harvested above ground level at intervals of less than 10 years.