Greencert needed to inherit forestry?

isabel.hazel

Hi all,

I am 25yo and due to inherit the family farm. Our farm is 150ac and currently 50ac of that is in planted forestry with Irish Wood Producers. In the coming years as part of his retirement plan- Dad plans to plant the rest of the fields in forestry (bar the odd few paddocks which will be left as grass for small animals)

Therefore by the time I am eventually to inherit the land- 95% of it will be in forestry and not working grassland/fields. Does anyone know If I am required still to have a GreenCert to inherit forestry? Seeing as the land technically won't be "working agricultural land" anymore and it will be tied into forestry for the foreseeable future? Will I still need to have a GreenCert for tax purposes? Or is that not relevant to forestry?

For further context I am living abroad at the moment and need to plan if I need to move home for a year or two to get the GreenCert done - so all is in order for farm transfer and we have our ducks in a row.

Any insights appreciated from anyone who has inherited land in forestry or anyone who has transferred it to children or plans to.

Thanks in advance.

blue5000

Not sure about whether you need to do the green cert or not, but you can do it as a distance learning course, with a few additional attendance days as well. Ask teagasc.

sandman30

As I understand it the Green Cert is not required to inherit either agricultural land or forestry. Forestry is available for either agricultural relief on inheritance or business relief and the Green Cert is not required to avail of these reliefs

The advantage of the Green Cert is if it is a lifetime transfer by your father to you, in which case there is a saving on stamp duty. The stamp duty is not applicable in an inheritance situation.

893bet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121642930#Comment_121642930

If it’s all transfer to you hard argue that 50 percent of time is spent farming the forestry for agri relief

Base price

There appears to be two threads posted simultaneously and still no reply from the OP ??

I often wonder is there is a bot/ai thing going on with random posts from supposedly long term registered posters with feck all posts. Link to the same post -

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058332017/greencert-needed-to-inherit-forestry

isabel.hazel

@Base price Thank you - yes when I posted it it seemed to post twice for some reason ? And I was unable to delete one!

isabel.hazel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121642727#Comment_121642727

Thanks- yes it would be the distance I'd be looking into , but its the one or two contact days a month I's struggle with doing if living abroad!

lmk123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121654973#Comment_121654973

It’s not 1 or 2 a month, it’s 3 or 4 altogether and you’ll get plenty of notice

Jb1989

How much is the distance green cert now to do?