Succession, APR/BPR & Tax Planning
Succession & Tax: Data & Integrations
What is recorded, what it connects to and who can see it.
The module maintains 9 core entities and connects to 5 external sources. Everything is exportable in open formats and every instance of sharing requires explicit consent.
Data model
What the module records, and how it connects
These are the entities the module maintains. Because they are shared across the platform rather than owned by one screen, a record created here is available everywhere it is relevant.
- Asset
- Valuation
- Relief assessment
- Individual
- Allowance utilisation
- Scheme commitment
- Tenancy right
- Structure option
- Family record
Every entity carries a full audit trail and is exportable in open formats under the Farm Data Charter.
Working view
Succession & Tax, at a glance
The numbers you would check before doing anything else in succession & tax. Each one is live against your own record, and each one tells you where it came from.
Choose a view
Exposure quantified against the cap
72
+3.0%
Allowance utilisation across the couple
59 %
+3 pts
target 95%
Succession plans documented
23
+3.0%
Binding commitments identified
8
+3.0%
Annual reviews completed
52 %
+1 pts
target 95%
What needs attention
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Action needed
Legislative change
the module presents the current position with the source and date, and flags conflicting impact estimates rather than resolving them silently
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For information
This is information, not tax advice
professional advice is required before any action
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For information
Family conflict
mitigated by a structured, recorded process rather than an unstructured conversation
Integrations
What it connects to
Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources rather than rebuilding them. Where no production interface exists, a documented user-mediated route is provided instead.
- Valuation providers
- Accounting systems
- Scheme agreement records
- Tenancy agreement records
- Professional adviser workflows
Integration availability, licensing and cost vary by source. The integration catalogue states the position for each one honestly, including where a commercial licence is required.
By nation
The same job, four different sets of rules
Delivered by: Defra, the Rural Payments Agency, Natural England, the Environment Agency and the Forestry Commission.
Main scheme: Environmental Land Management, with the Sustainable Farming Incentive as the principal offer alongside Countryside Stewardship, capital grants and Landscape Recovery.
Delinked payments end after 2027. Windows have closed at short notice before, so budget-fill status is worth watching.
Delivered by: The Scottish Government and the Rural Payments and Inspections Division.
Main scheme: A four-tier framework under the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024, with base and enhanced direct payments and elective and complementary tiers following.
Whole Farm Plan components are a condition of support and phase in over several years. Miss a component and the payment is at risk.
Delivered by: The Welsh Government and Rural Payments Wales.
Main scheme: The Sustainable Farming Scheme, with Universal, Optional and Collaborative layers, replacing the legacy area payment which phases out by 2029.
The Universal layer requires twelve actions, at least ten per cent habitat and a farm carbon baseline. Welsh language provision is a legal expectation, not an optional extra.
Delivered by: DAERA.
Main scheme: The Sustainable Agriculture Programme, with the Farm Sustainability Payment as the area-based safety net alongside beef, suckler, sheep, protein crop and horticulture schemes.
Conditionality now includes soil nutrient health and bovine genetics participation, and progressive capping applies above sixty thousand pounds.
Detail
How the data is held
Inheritance tax reform has made succession planning urgent for a defined group of farming families, and the position depends on the interaction between asset values, the relief cap, spousal transferability and the multi-year scheme agreements that can bind a successor. This module models that interaction and structures the family conversation that has to follow.
From 6 April 2026, 100 per cent Agricultural and Business Property Relief is capped at a combined £2.5 million per person, with 50 per cent relief above that giving an effective 20 per cent rate, the allowance transferable between spouses so a couple can shelter up to £5 million, and tax payable over ten interest-free annual instalments. The cap was raised from an originally proposed £1 million in December 2025. Impact estimates conflict sharply: one landowner body warned the original £1 million cap could affect 70,000 farms, while an independent analysis estimated around 30 per cent of farm estates affected of which roughly 200 a year are genuine family farms. The higher allowance sharply reduces the affected population, but the position for the largest commercial farms remains unmodelled at sector level.
Everything Succession & Tax records is written into the same platform data spine as every other module, which is why a single entry can satisfy an operational need, a scheme evidence requirement, an assurance clause and a carbon activity line at once. That is the whole design premise: the work is already being done, and it is the recording of it that is duplicated.
Obligation calendar
What succession & tax asks of you, and when
Windows, deadlines and recurring obligations for England. Set a different nation and the calendar reconfigures; farm across a border and it shows both, reconciled.
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April 3 entries
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4 April: Model exposure against the cap for individuals and the couple
A recurring step in succession & tax.
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6 April: Agricultural and Business Property Relief Reform
Effective from 6 April 2026.
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20 April: Adding Value Grant
Round-based.
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May 1 entry
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5 May: Register and value all assets and business interests
A recurring step in succession & tax.
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June 3 entries
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5 June: Farming Transformation Fund
Round-based by theme.
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6 June: Identify binding scheme and tenancy commitments
A recurring step in succession & tax.
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15 June: Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026
Two windows in 2026: window one from 30 June, window two from September.
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July 2 entries
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14 July: Slurry Infrastructure Grant
Round-based.
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17 July: Water Management Grant
Round-based.
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August 1 entry
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14 August: Assess relief qualification asset by asset
A recurring step in succession & tax.
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October 1 entry
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5 October: Farming Equipment and Technology Fund
Round-based, usually open for a defined application period.
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November 2 entries
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12 November: Improving Farm Productivity Grant
Round-based.
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27 November: Environmental Land Management Capital Grants
Round-based, with rapid allocation once open.
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December 1 entry
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26 December: Countryside Stewardship
Rolling and round-based depending on the tier and option group.
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How we handle evidence
Where these figures come from
Agrivencia grades every figure it publishes. Primary legislation, official statistics and audit reports are treated as authoritative. Levy body and professional body data is treated as reliable. Commercial trackers and trade press are treated as indicative and labelled as such. Where sources conflict, the conflict is shown rather than resolved silently.
- Authoritative Legislation, statutory instruments, official scheme rules, national audit and public accounts reporting, departmental annual reports and accredited official statistics.
- Reliable Parliamentary committee evidence, peer-reviewed research, independent economic institutes and levy body analysis.
- Supporting Professional bodies, land agents, certification schemes and industry associations.
- Indicative Commercial market trackers and trade press, used for corroboration only and always labelled.
Payment rates, caps and windows in UK farm support change frequently and sometimes without notice. Nothing on this platform is a substitute for the current published scheme rules or for professional advice.
Questions answered
What people ask about Succession & Tax
Does this replace the software I already use?
Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.
Will it work where I have no signal?
Yes. Field capture in Succession & Tax is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.
What happens when the scheme rules change?
Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.
Who owns the data I put in?
You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.
Does it work if I farm across a border?
Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.
Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?
Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.
What is the biggest limitation of this module?
Legislative change. The module presents the current position with the source and date, and flags conflicting impact estimates rather than resolving them silently. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
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