For farmers

For farmers and farm families

Farm income goes up and down, and the paperwork never stops. Some of the help for farm families is often missed.

Farm Assist tops up a low farm income. There are grants for wells and septic tanks, and tax reliefs when land changes hands.

Check Farm Assist

A worked example

A couple with two children under 12, €20,000 a year in farm profit, and €8,000 from an environment scheme with €500 of costs.

Farm Assist a week

€256.60

You could get €256.60 a week in Farm Assist, €13,343.20 a year.

Worked out by our Farm Assist calculator, from these answers. Your own answers give your own figure.

Try it with your own figures

Self-assessment tool. The figures come from your own answers. It isn't advice, and you're responsible for what you file or claim.

5 things people often miss

1
Scheme payments aren't all counted for Farm Assist
Part of what you get from environment schemes isn't counted at all, and only half of the rest is. Enter them on their own line.
- Farm Assist
2
Grants for your well and septic tank
Your council gives grants to fix or replace a private well or a septic tank, and to replace lead pipes. Each has its own conditions.
3
Stamp duty when you buy or are given land
Young trained farmers, and land passed to a close relative, can pay less stamp duty or none.
- Farmland stamp duty
4
Tax reliefs for working farmers
Stock relief, and the write-off on machinery and farm buildings, can cut the tax on your farm profit.
- Farm tax reliefs explained
- Write-offs on machinery
5
Passing on the farm
Agricultural relief can cut the value that gift or inheritance tax is charged on by 90%. Retirement relief can mean no Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you hand the farm to a child.

A worked example

A couple with two children under 12, €20,000 a year in farm profit, and €8,000 from an environment scheme with €500 of costs.

Farm Assist a week

€256.60

You could get €256.60 a week in Farm Assist, €13,343.20 a year.

Worked out by our Farm Assist calculator, from these answers. Your own answers give your own figure.

Try it with your own figures

Self-assessment tool. The figures come from your own answers. It isn't advice, and you're responsible for what you file or claim.

5 things people often miss

Scheme payments aren't all counted for Farm Assist

Part of what you get from environment schemes isn't counted at all, and only half of the rest is. Enter them on their own line.

Farm Assist

Grants for your well and septic tank

Your council gives grants to fix or replace a private well or a septic tank, and to replace lead pipes. Each has its own conditions.

Stamp duty when you buy or are given land

Young trained farmers, and land passed to a close relative, can pay less stamp duty or none.

Farmland stamp duty

Tax reliefs for working farmers

Stock relief, and the write-off on machinery and farm buildings, can cut the tax on your farm profit.

Passing on the farm

Agricultural relief can cut the value that gift or inheritance tax is charged on by 90%. Retirement relief can mean no Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you hand the farm to a child.