The Farmers Mart Oct/Nov 2014 - Issue 36 | Page 12

FARM NEWS

Are commercial
woodlands a good
place to invest
surplus cash?
CAROL CHEESMAN , Principal of
Cheesmans Accountants based in Islington,
North London, believes that this makes
good sense, and offers this advice.

If you have surplus cash then it
makes sense to invest it and get
it working for you. There are, of
course, many ways to do this. With
interest rates remaining low for the
moment, buying woods or a forest
is, according to Carol Cheesman of
Cheesmans Accountants, becoming
increasingly popular.
Recently the value of commercial
woodlands has been increasing and they
offer many tax advantages for investors.
For example, where there is a
commercial occupation of w