farmerm
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Low input grassland required soil testing including organic matter content prior to getting an agreement.yes i did thay wanted 7 samples from each field taken across the field in a W patten .
Low input grassland required soil testing including organic matter content prior to getting an agreement.yes i did thay wanted 7 samples from each field taken across the field in a W patten .
It’s just the way they send you an invoice and the wording around it, if it was like ‘we know we owe you 10 times more than what we actually think you owe us so can we knock it off’ and the other thing is if you go to appeal for said invoice it blocks any payments being paid until resolved it really is farcical!Send a contra invoice with their unpaid amount offsetting what they've billed you for. None of what I've read surprises me any more.
Send a contra invoice with their unpaid amount offsetting what they've billed you for. None of what I've read surprises me any more.
I doubt the department that issued the invoice for the overpayment knows whether you've ever been paid or not.
Having read my agreement terms there was no agreement on timings beyond the first spring, we all agreed to these grossly unfair contracts in good faith. We wrongly assumed payments would continue to be reliable as they have been in previous agreements. Few of us would have agreed to such terms if this was some private rather than government backed scheme.Good luck with that one! I think you'd ned a very good lawyer to win that case - you'd have to prove your contract with NE (now the RPA) specified when you'd be paid.
Its not natural England’s problem anymore as they offloaded us on to the RPA, they too will pass the buck eventually. If they continue to treat farmers like fools there will be no renewals. Perhaps if a few of us can take turns circling the homes and offices of the head brass and Mr Gove with trailer loads of chicken sh!t, they might come to their senses...I had a meeting with a few top brass of Natural England who did point out there was no legal framework for payments.
In theory, legally, they need not pay these schemes for years !
Not sure that is wise if they want farmers to re-sign when the scheme runs out !
I have to send off some evidence for my claim, I have rung RPA 03000 200 301 a few times, follow the appropriate options and the line goes dead, or no one is available.
Can anyone confirm that the e-mail address you send Stewardship info to is Email: [email protected] ?
Seems to me, that email address must get a hell of a lot of traffic for everything RPA related, rather than just Stewardship.
My accountant wants to know if I had any environmental money that need to be accounted for as owning at the end of our last tax year.... I am not sure what the correct answer is to that query, it can't be owning if there is no schedule as to when it would be owed.
This is one of the greatest Con tricks that we all unwittingly signed up to.
Those of us that have been in environmental schemes for many years have seen our situation completely change. Originally we were paid in advance for income foregone.
Now gradually we have been paid in arrears, however the Con has been that they only said when we would be paid in the first year, which was because they moved the start date to the 1/1 of every year the majority of us had no money for a few months.
The next Con was that with most environmental schemes you have to actually spend money, so they give you the first payment (75%) in year one in December (or in many cases between January and March the next year) with the other 25% in June, possibly.
This year as far as I know the payment due in December will not be paid until the end of March!!
As far as I can see after the first year there is no schedule of payments so we just hope they will pay us!
So you are quite right about what you say to your accountant, but to avoid paying too much tax you probably need to include the money in the year when you should have received it, even if you don't get it!!
Payments starting to trickle through. Can take 10 days from 'release' until appearing in your bank mind!
Got mine yesterday, after many phone callsYou had yours or are you an agent?