Agricultural Accountants in Shropshire
Written and reviewed by the Agricultural Accountants editorial team. Last reviewed 27 July 2026.
Shropshire is mixed-farming country: dairy and beef, sheep on the hills around the Long Mynd and Clun, and cereals and oilseed rape with potatoes on the lower ground. That breadth means a Shropshire farm often runs livestock and arable together, and the tax has to serve both.
Livestock brings the herd basis, arable brings machinery investment and averaging, and many holdings need both.
Livestock and Arable Under One Roof
A farm running dairy or beef alongside cereals has both a herd-basis question and a machinery-and-averaging question. The Annual Investment Allowance gives full relief on plant and machinery, including tractors and combines, up to £1 million, and averaging smooths the arable swings. Both are covered in our guide to averaging and the herd basis.
Bringing the livestock and arable sides into one coherent set of accounts, with the reliefs applied correctly across both, is the core of the work on a mixed Shropshire farm.
Succession on a Marches Farm
Shropshire has its share of long-held family farms, and the inheritance-tax reform brought the usual worry. At the current £2.5 million position most are far from the worst case, but the calculation is worth doing rather than assuming.
Where land straddles the border with Wales, the tax on the land itself is the same, but the farm-support scheme differs, which is covered in our guide to farm subsidies.